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say it: si-DISH-uhn
sedition is a noun meaning "an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government". It carries one recorded sense.
an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
law
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sedition come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.