revolt
verb (used without object)
to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny.
revolter
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a word derived from
revolt.
Example Sentences
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He was born a spitfire and a revolter against the established order.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems strange, therefore, that he was read out of the Party; while Senator LaFollette, an open revolter for many years, still remains a nominal Republican.
From Time Magazine Archive
When I came to the word Renegado, after telling that it meant "one who deserts to the enemy, a revolter," I added, Sometimes we say a GOWER.
From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
If they were bound to hold him down and delegitimatize him and keep him a pariah and a revolter against order, he would show them what he, alone, could do in his own behalf.
From Phantom Wires A Novel by Arthur William Brown
"And what if a revolter doesn't become Chaliced?"
From Rastignac the Devil by Philip José Farmer
