Indignation vs Revolt - What's the difference?
indignation | revolt |
An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.
A self-righteous anger or disgust.
To rebel, particularly against authority.
* Shakespeare
To repel greatly.
* Burke
* J. Morley
To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at .
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
* Milton
* J. Morley
As nouns the difference between indignation and revolt
is that indignation is an anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice while revolt is an act of revolt.As a verb revolt is
to rebel, particularly against authority.indignation
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(en noun)revolt
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- The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
- Our discontented counties do revolt .
- Your brother revolts me!
- This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.
- To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.
- (Spenser)
- The stomach revolts''' at such food; his nature '''revolts at cruelty.
- Still revolt when truth would set them free.
- His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.
