What is the difference between mutiny and sedition?
mutiny | sedition |
An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.
* Macaulay
Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
* Shakespeare
To commit mutiny.
organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.
insurrection or rebellion
As nouns the difference between mutiny and sedition
is that mutiny is an organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers while sedition is organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.As a verb mutiny
is to commit mutiny.mutiny
English
Noun
(wikipedia mutiny) (mutinies)- In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader.
- Raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.
Verb
- The crew of the Bounty mutinied because of the harsh discipline of Captain Bligh.