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seditiously

seditiously

1 9.9
In a way that encourages people to rebel against the government
  • adverb
  • /sɪˈdɪʃəsli/
  • Formal
translation icon : de manera sediciosa
  • The group of activists planned to speak seditiously during the rally to inspire others to challenge the government.

Examples

  • The pamphlet circulated among the students was filled with seditiously themed messages urging resistance to authority.

  • Once again he was thinking dangerously, seditiously.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Though she did not spell it out, the song she recalled a "tall, large" woman to have sung was a seditiously foolish call to battle: PREFORMATTED TABLE

    Academic text (1998)
  • There are many patriotic Muslims who are part of both parties, and when radical ideologues like this do a demonstration of "solidarity" in the name of our faith and choose an imam like Siraj Wahhaj, who I saw with my own eyes in 1995 seditiously say it is his duty and our duty as Muslims to replace the US Constitution with the Quran, then we need to speak up!

    Blog text (13)
  • He wrote a seditiously charged article that incited public unrest against the new policies.

Synonyms

subversively
vsseditiously
1 7.8

To do something secretly to weaken rules or authority

encourages active rebellion or resistance directly against government authority

Antonyms

12 2.7

In a willing way to do what someone says

How Seditious

treasonously
  • Formal
9.4
seditiously
  • Formal
1 9.9
subversively
1 7.8

Surface Forms

seditiously positive

Morphology

seditiously = seditious (transparent) = sedition + ous + ly

Formed by regular adjective->adverb conversion (seditious + -ly); the adverbial meaning is directly derived from the adjective.

Etymology

Seditiously comes from the old Latin word seditio, which meant 'going apart' or 'rebellion', and from the small part se- meaning 'apart'. So, to act seditiously is to try to pull people away from the government or to encourage a rebellion.