insurrectionist

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)

From insurrection + -ist.

The insurrectionists concentrated at Lucknow, the capital, and captured some of the forts, as has been related to you. — Across India; Or, Live Boys in the Far East, Oliver Optic
None of the guests heard Pinkerton's words, but, as will be easily imagined, there was a painful silence, which I broke by standing up and saying that there was some unhappy mistake, that I was arrested upon the charge of furnishing arms to the insurrectionists in the eastern provinces. — Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude, Austin Bidwell
So they have picked up the word and the insurrectionists are called ‘Frondeurs,’ and yesterday every article sold was ‘à la Fronde;’ bread ‘à la Fronde,’ hats ‘à la Fronde,’ to say nothing of gloves, pocket-handkerchiefs, and fans; but listen——” At that moment a window opened and a man began to sing: “A tempest from the Fronde Did blow to-day: I think ’twill blow Sieur Mazarin away.” “Insolent wretch!” cried Guitant. — Twenty years after, Alexandre Dumas

insurgent, freedom fighter, rebel

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