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mutiny

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Mutiny is a criminal conspiracy among a group of people (typically members of the military ; or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians) to openly oppose, change, or overthrow a lawful authority to which they are subject. The term is commonly used ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from mutiny (n.). Alternative mutine is recorded from 1550s. Related: Mutinied ; mutinying .

Usage examples of mutiny.

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I was on deck when the mutiny started and the Signal Book and private signals were on the binnacle box.

His attempts to impose real disciplinethe firm foundation of which any army needs must be builton the rascally galloglaiches and the unhung criminals who were known as bonaghts had resulted ultimately in mutinies, murders and attempted murders, and arson.

Finally in desperation the spineless Army chief informed the Fuehrer that the morale of the troops in the west was similar to that in 1917-18, when there was defeatism, insubordination and even mutiny in the German Army.

Walls, gates and defences rise, parish churchesare built over Saxon villages, medieval commerce packs the streets with wood-beamed houses, and the kaleidoscope of history spins wildly on through coronations, insurrections and disharmonies, mutiny and jubilation eliding past, present and future.

Where the mind mutinies, the spirit stands fasti Those were the words of Captain Standish, the great dwarf general.

Ford being chained to his bed by his secretary, of mutinies and grotesque happenings.

It was only after the series of naval mutinies towards the end of the last European war that the ancient practice of piracy was resumed.

Etienne, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Naples, Hamburg, Lodz and Glasgow there were mutinies of troops under arms and risings sufficiently formidable to sustain provisional Soviets for periods varying from a week to several months.

Therefore to take Antonius with him was to run the risk of massive troop mutinies the moment the going got hard.

The mutinies at the Nore and Spithead had brought better conditions for the Navy and he had never heard any murmurs of discontent since then.

Sarmatian troops like the one you command in mutinies, and has actually called in the Selgovae and the other Pictish tribes as invaders to occupy the army so the rebellion can succeed.

Reports were also spread of mutinies among the sailors at Portsmouth, insurrections among the Norwich weavers, and riots in Essex and Lancashire.

During the sitting of parliament mutinies broke out in the fleet, which gave far greater alarm than the suspension of cash payments by the Bank.

The Nuris, whose disagreeable physical appearance gained Manaret the name of Worm World, were a servant race which in the mutiny had switched allegiance from the Lyrd-Hyrier to Moander.