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Definition of Revolt

Revolt To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence. Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty. To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight. To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings. The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire. A revolter. Related Definitions: Abandon, Abhorrence, Act, Against, Allegiance, An, And, Another, As, At, Authority, Away, Back, Be, Cause, Cruelty, Desert, Disgusted, Do, Drive, Empire, Especially, Faithless, Feel, Flight, Food, For, Government, Grossly, Hence, His, Leader, Legitimate, Nature, Nausea, Of, Offended, One, Or, Party, Province, Put, Rebel, Rebellion, Reject, Renounce, Renunciation, Revolt, Revolter, Revolting, Rise, Roll, Roman, Shock, Shocked, Shrink, Something, Specifically, Stomach, Subjection, Such, The, To, Turn, Uprising, Violence, With

Revolt Quotations Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. Aristotle In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. Bertrand Russell I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. Jim Morrison It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. Eric Hoffer A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. Sigmund Freud

Revolt Translations revolt in Danish is rejse sig, opstand revolt in Dutch is muiten, rebelleren, in opstand komen revolt in Finnish is kapinoida revolt in German is Aufstand {m}, auflehnen, rebelliere revolt in Italian is rivolta revolt in Latin is insurgo insurgi insurrectum revolt in Portuguese is revolta revolt in Spanish is revuelta revolt in Swedish is resning, revolt, uppror, revoltera

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