insurrectionary

comparative more insurrectionary · superlative most insurrectionary

1. Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection.

   The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.

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   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

plural insurrectionaries

1. One who takes part in insurrection.