First Known Use: 14th century
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sedition
noun se·di·tion \si-ˈdi-shən\
: the crime of saying, writing, or doing something that encourages people to disobey their government
Full Definition of SEDITION
: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority
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addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, rendition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition
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