insurrectionist

[ UK /ɪnsəɹˈɛkʃənˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
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How To Use insurrectionist In A Sentence

  • Releasing the photos at that point would have run the risk of stirring up insurrectionists and undermining the new government.
  • Unlike insurrectionists who resist government because it is repressive, vigilantes ‘take arms to do the government's work because the authorities are not repressive enough.’
  • Anyway, the local white ladies auxilliary got together and could see that this interloper was causing stirrings in the black community and possibly encouraging insurrectionist temperments so they, in a truly Southern fashion, held an afternoon tea (tea in South Alabama was actually LeJon Dry Sherry served in tea cups with finger sandwiches) and invite this woman over to intercede with her on behalf of the community. Questions and Concerns about Foreigners in Mexico
  • At this rate we could have government grants for insurrectionists.
  • Traditionally it was an area of peasant insurrectionists, schismatics, and sectarians whose acerbic style was reflected in Lenin's own.
  • Traditionally it was an area of peasant insurrectionists, schismatics, and sectarians whose acerbic style was reflected in Lenin's own.
  • As far as the Empire was concerned, Gandhi was a troublemaker, an insurrectionist, and a traitor to the Empire.
  • They were what used to be called insurrectionists, but they probably wouldn't have minded being called Marxist and/or anarchist rebels, revolutionists, liberationists… you get the sort of thing.
  • Imagine the band's shock when they gazed out across the crowd and instead of a wild-haired, mad-eyed, snotty-nosed insurrectionist rabble, they were greeted by nice smiles, polite applause and row upon row of well-pressed T-shirts.
  • a lying traitorous insurrectionist
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