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• n  a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

• Before he became the general of the revolution, Lenin was its pedant, the journalist-scholar who married Marxist theory to an incisive analysis of insurrectionist tactics.
• Say "Mad," and most people will think of the magazine, or the TV show, not Harvey Kurtzman's inestimably more original and insurrectionist comic book, which existed for 23 glorious .
• Kropotkin was an aristocrat who, after being imprisoned for his insurrectionist activities, escaped and fled to England in 1876.

• insurgent
• freedom fighter
• rebel

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in Hindu
  They have declared their desire to overthrow the Pakistani government. And I think that, plus the insurrectionist activity that's going on up in the northwestern part of the country, has really gotten the Pakistani government's attention,...
• Bob Dylan in ABC News
  Dylan said that the President is "like a fictional character, but he's real. First off, his mother was a Kansas girl. Never lived in Kansas though, but with deep roots. You know, like Kansas bloody Kansas. John Brown the insurrectionist. Jesse James...