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   seditious

   /sɪˈdɪʃəs/

   adjective

   • 1. inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch: "the letter was declared seditious" Similar rabble-rousingincitingagitatingfomentingtroublemakingprovocativeinflammatoryagitationalrevolutionaryrebelliousinsurrectionistmutinousinsurgentsubversiveinsubordinatecivil disobediencedissidentdefiantdisloyaltreasonous

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French seditieux or Latin seditiosus, from seditio ‘mutinous separation’ (see sedition).

   Derivatives

   • 1. seditiously adverb

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