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revolt(1) (iou)



revolt noun. M16.
[French revolte from Italian rivolta, from rivoltare: see REVOLT verb.]
A mass insurrection, an uprising, a rebellion. M16.
R. H. Tawney Hardly a decade..passed without a peasant's revolt.
b. An act of protest or defiance by an individual; esp. a refusal to submit to a lawful authority or established custom and practice. L16.
Harper's Magazine The political philosophy of..Jefferson was a product of..infantile revolt against his father.
c. A change of attitude; a switch of loyalties. L16.
The action of rebelling or protesting. L16.
in revolt in a state of rebellion.
C. Pankhurst Unless the vote were granted to women..a fiercer spirit of revolt would be awakened.
Revulsion; a sense of loathing or disgust. rare. E17.