sedition
noun
- Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
- The government used sedition laws to suppress dissenting voices.
- The pamphlet was considered sedition by the authorities.
- During wartime, sedition is often punished harshly.
- He was arrested on charges of sedition after calling for an uprising.
- The defendant was accused of sedition for distributing anti-government materials.