insurrection
English
WOTD – 27 December 2021
Etymology
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From Late Middle English insurreccion (“uprising against a government, rebellion, revolt; civil disorder, riot; illegal armed assault”) [and other forms],[1] from Middle French insurrection, Old French insurreccïon (modern French insurrection), and from their etymon Latin īnsurrēctiōnem (rare), the accusative singular of īnsurrēctiō (“rising up, insurrection, rebellion”), from īnsurgō (“to rise up”),[2] from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + surgō (“to arise, get up; to rise”) (from sub- (prefix meaning ‘(from) beneath, under’) + regō (“to direct, govern, rule; to guide, steer; to manage, oversee”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to right oneself, straighten; just; right”))).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɪnsəˈɹɛkʃn̩/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɪnsəˈɹɛkʃ(ə)n/
- Rhymes: -ɛkʃən
- Hyphenation: in‧sur‧rect‧ion
Noun
insurrection (countable and uncountable, plural insurrections) (also figuratively)
- (uncountable) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.
- Synonyms: insurgency, mutiny, rebellion, rising
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “King Henry the Eyghte”, in The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, OCLC 265432180, page 1568, column 2:
- After this, by the great wiſedome and politic of the Nobles and Captaynes, a communication was had, and an agreement made vppon the Kings pardon, obtayned for all the Captaynes and chiefe doers in this inſurrection, and promiſe made that they ſhoulde bee gentlye heard, to declare ſuch things as they found themſelues agreeued with, […]
- 1642 (indicated as 1641), John Milton, “That Prelaty Was Not Set Up for Prevention of Schisme, as is Pretended, or if It Were, that It Performes Not What It Was First Set Up for, but Quite the Contrary”, in The Reason of Church-governement Urg’d against Prelaty […], London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], OCLC 4610908, 1st book, page 29:
- And therefore if God afterward gave, or permitted this inſurrection of Epiſcopacy, it is to be fear'd he did it in his wrath, as he gave the Iſraelites a King.
- 1788, Publius [pseudonym; Alexander Hamilton], “Number XXVIII. The Same Subject Continued. [The Necessity of a Government, at Least Equally Energetic with the One Proposed.].”, in The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, […] , volume I, New York, N.Y.: […] J. and A. M‘Lean, […], OCLC 642792893, page 173:
- Our own experience has corroborated the leſſons taught by the examples of other nations; […] that ſeditions and inſurrections are unhappily maladies as inſeparable from the body politic, as tumours and eruptions from the natural body; […]
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 85:
- He returned to Spain, and was now on his way to join and take command of an insurrection, whose success was to be the touchstone of their countrymen.
Derived terms
- insurrectional
- insurrectionary
- insurrectionism
- insurrectionist
- insurrectionize
- insurrectious
- insurrectory
- noninsurrectionary
Related terms
- insurrect
- insurrecto
Translations
action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; an instance of this — See also translations at revolt, uprising
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References
- “insurrecciọ̄n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- Compare “insurrection, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2021; “insurrection, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
rebellion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin īnsurrectiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sy.ʁɛk.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
insurrection f (plural insurrections)
- insurrection
- Synonym: soulèvement
Related terms
- insurger
- résurrection
Further reading
- “insurrection”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.