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seditionary

seditionary noun: an inciter or promoter of sedition; a seditionist.

Noun

seditionary (plural seditionaries)

  1. An inciter or promoter of sedition; a seditionist.
    • They believed the Americans to be traitors and seditionaries, ungrateful for the benefits that had accrued to them and unwilling to pay a fair contribution to the expenses of empire.2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 233

Adjective

seditionary (comparative more seditionary, superlative most seditionary)

  1. Constituting or relating to sedition.

Forms of seditionary

Noun
pluralseditionaries
Adjective
comparativemore seditionary
superlativemost seditionary

Origin of seditionary

From sedition + -ary.

Questions about seditionary

What does seditionary mean?
Seditionary means an inciter or promoter of sedition; a seditionist.
What part of speech is seditionary?
Seditionary can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of seditionary?
The plural of seditionary is seditionaries.

Words near seditionary in the dictionary

  1. sediments
  2. sedinone
  3. Sediq
  4. sedition
  5. seditionaries
  6. seditionary
  7. seditionist
  8. seditionists
  9. seditions
  10. seditious
  11. seditiously

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