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1. Refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
   "each generation must have its own rebellion"; "his body was in rebellion against fatigue"
    
2. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another
   - insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising

Derived forms: rebellions

See also: rebel, rebellious

Type of: battle, conflict, resistance, struggle

Encyclopedia: Rebellion