All 8 Uses of
sedition
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- But the sermon over, he none the less tranquilly resumed his course of seditions and enormities.†
Chpt 1.4.5 *
- In the thirteenth century, Guillaume de Paris, and Nicholas Flamel, in the fifteenth, wrote such seditious pages.†
Chpt 1.5.2seditious = acts to tendency to engage in acts that resist government authority or attempt to overthrow a government
- The old scaffolding of feudal jurisdictions remained standing; an immense aggregation of bailiwicks and seignories crossing each other all over the city, interfering with each other, entangled in one another, enmeshing each other, trespassing on each other; a useless thicket of watches, sub-watches and counter-watches, over which, with armed force, passed brigandage, rapine, and sedition.†
Chpt 2.10.4
- there is a sedition of the populace in Paris!†
Chpt 2.10.5
- What were you going to do in this damnable sedition?†
Chpt 2.10.5
- I am not the man to fling myself into those clouds which break out into seditious clamor.†
Chpt 2.10.5seditious = acts to tendency to engage in acts that resist government authority or attempt to overthrow a government
- These, sire, are my maxims of state: then do not judge me to be a seditious and thieving rascal because my garment is worn at the elbows.†
Chpt 2.10.5
- "Sire," resumed Olivier le Daim, with the malicious air of a man who rejoices that he is about to deal a violent blow, "'tis not against the bailiff of the courts that this popular sedition is directed."†
Chpt 2.10.5
Definition:
illegal acts encouraging resistance to government authority -- especially overthrow of the government