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Definition of Rebel
Rebel

Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.

One who rebels.

To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.

To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.

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Rebel Quotations

I was not cut out to be a rebel.
Gene Tierney

What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope

Rebel Translations

rebel in Afrikaans is rebel
rebel in Danish is rejse sig
rebel in Dutch is oproerling, muiter, rebel
rebel in Finnish is kapinoida
rebel in French is cabrer, rebelle
rebel in Italian is ribelle, indignare
rebel in Latin is insurgo insurgi insurrectum
rebel in Spanish is rebelde


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