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revolter

noun as in anarchist

noun as in demonstrator

noun as in insurgent

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Example Sentences

Marcus pointed to one example of a captain punishing a revolter by cutting off his head and making the other enslaved people pass it around, from person to person.

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He is a revolter, however, against the magical and alchemistic methods of his age, which seek for the welfare of men through the elixir of youth or the philosopher’s stone.

By flight to the Netherlands he escaped the fate of another revolter, whom Eller persuaded the authorities at Düsseldorf to put to death as a sorcerer.

He was born a spitfire and a revolter against the established order.

It seems strange, therefore, that he was read out of the Party; while Senator LaFollette, an open revolter for many years, still remains a nominal Republican.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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