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Revolt vs Jacquerie - What's the difference?

revolt | jacquerie |

As nouns the difference between revolt and jacquerie

is that revolt is an act of revolt while jacquerie is a violent revolt by peasants.

As a verb revolt

is to rebel, particularly against authority.

revolt

English

Verb

  • To rebel, particularly against authority.
    • The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Our discontented counties do revolt .
  • To repel greatly.
    • Your brother revolts me!
  • * Burke
    • This abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.
  • * J. Morley
    • To derive delight from what inflicts pain on any sentient creature revolted his conscience and offended his reason.
  • To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
    • (Spenser)
  • To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at .
    • The stomach revolts''' at such food; his nature '''revolts at cruelty.
  • To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
  • * Milton
    • Still revolt when truth would set them free.
  • * J. Morley
    • His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an act of revolt

    • Related terms

    * revolting ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Noun

    • jacquerie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Jacquerie

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A violent revolt by peasants.
  • * 1911 , (Saki), ‘The Stampeding of Lady Bastable’, The Chronicles of Clovis :
    • A jacquerie , even if carried out with the most respectful of intentions, cannot fail to leave some traces of embarrassment behind it.
  • * 1951 , publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 18, page 185, ¶ 9:
    • “Is that what you’re setting your hopes on, man? What do you expect? A housewives’ rebellion? A Jacquerie ?[”]
  • * 1986 , G Krishnan-Kutty, Peasantry in India , p. 71:
    • Whenever a jacquerie occurred, the authorities looked "upon it as a revolt of the underdog against his native oppressor."