Mutiny vs Treason - What's the difference?
mutiny | treason |
An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.
* Macaulay
Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
* Shakespeare
To commit mutiny.
The crime of betraying one’s own country.
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* 1952 , James Avery Joyce: Justice At Work : (this edition Pan 1957) Page 105.
Providing aid and comfort to the enemy.
As nouns the difference between mutiny and treason
is that mutiny is an organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers while treason is the crime of betraying one’s own country.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.
treason
English
(wikipedia treason)Noun
(en noun)- Formerly, the punishment for high treason was of a most barbarous character…. Women were burnt. A male traitor was dragged or drawn to the place of execution and hanged; but while still alive, he was cut down and disembowelled. His head was then severed from his body which was quartered. The head and quarters, which were at the Kings disposal, were usually exposed in some conspicuous place—the Temple Bar being a favourite spot—after being boiled in salt to prevent putrification and in cumin seed to prevent birds feasting on them.