Usage
What does rebeldom mean? Rebeldom refers to a region or territory controlled by rebels—revolutionaries trying to overthrow a government. Rebeldom can also refer to rebels collectively, as in The rebeldom consisted of a ragtag coalition of fighters. It can also be used as another word for rebellious behavior—behavior that breaks the rules, resists authority, or otherwise challenges the status quo. This can also be called rebelliousness or rebellion, though the word rebellion is more commonly used to refer to an attempt to overthrow a government—an organized revolution. Despite its versatility, the word rebeldom is not commonly used. Example: Government troops are closing in on the rebeldom in an attempt to take back the territory.
Etymology
Origin of rebeldom
Example Sentences
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A bright-eyed boy of eighteen, whose young spirit had not been completely crushed out in rebeldom, could not refrain from a hurrah, and cried out, 'Hurrah for Uncle Sam, hurrah!
From Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience by Bellows, Henry W.
A short time after this, all the party came back, and I received full details of their trip to the center of rebeldom.
From Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure by Pittenger, William
Of course I held my tongue, and gave no one reason to suppose that I had ever been in rebeldom.
From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon
I took the cars the next day and went to Lebanon—dressed in one of the rebel prisoner’s clothes—and thus disguised, made another trip to rebeldom.
From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by Edmonds, S. Emma E.
Your campaign was the final blow, grand in conception, complete in execution; and now it is yours to secure the last army which rebeldom possesses.
From Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman — Volume 2 by Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh)
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