Revolt vs Mutine - What's the difference?
revolt | mutine |
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
(obsolete) To rise up in revolt; to mutiny, to rebel.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.2:
*:They gan to gather in tumultuous rout, / And mutining to stirre up civill faction / For certaine losse of so great expectation […].
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As verbs the difference between revolt and mutine
is that revolt is to rebel, particularly against authority while mutine is (obsolete|intransitive) to rise up in revolt; to mutiny, to rebel.As nouns the difference between revolt and mutine
is that revolt is an act of revolt while mutine is (obsolete) mutiny, rebellion.revolt
English
Verb
- 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.