sedition
sih-DISH-unnounMeaning speech or action that stirs people to rebel against a government
Memory hook SAID-ition: words SAID to stir a revolt. Standing on a crate in the market, Rex shouts for the crowd to rise up against the queen; words like that are sedition.
The printer was arrested for sedition after publishing pamphlets urging people to overthrow the king.
In context In the old kingdom, even a joke about the queen could be punished as sedition, so people learned to whisper their complaints.
Similar incitement, agitation, subversion, rabble-rousing
Opposite loyalty, allegiance
From Latin seditio, “a going apart, a revolt”: sed- (apart) + itio (a going).