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seditionist|siːˈdɪʃənɪst, sɪ-| [f. sedition + -ist.] One who practises sedition or incites others to sedition; a promoter of disloyalty and factious strife against a government or state.
1786S. Trimmer Œcon. Charity (1801) I. 151 The endeavours of infidels and seditionists to corrupt the public mind. 1798Coleridge Let. to G. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 243, I therefore consent to be deemed a Democrat and a Seditionist. 1837Fraser's Mag. XVI. 129 Nor..is there any such increase of anarchists and seditionists as other folks are apt to dread. 1907Westm. Gaz. 9 Aug. 7/3 The Maharajahs..dissociating themselves from what is described as the campaign of rancour..pursued by the seditionists. |