insurrectionary
nounEtymology From insurrection + -ary.
1
One who takes part in insurrection.
insurrectionary
adjEtymology From insurrection + -ary.
1
Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection.
- The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.
- Politics, as the adage goes, is first experienced at home, and the autocratic Dr Gallo had ruled his household in a manner that was so oppressive and so patently unjust that Tony had grown used to thinking of himself in insurrectionary terms.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 31:
- Synonyms
- rebellious, seditious
- Derived terms
- noninsurrectionary