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Insurgency, Insurgence  n.  A state of insurrection; an uprising; an insurrection. "A moral insurgence in the minds of grave men against the Court of Rome."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Insurgency" Quotes from Famous Books



... to-day in the world of thought that Pragmatism is the most audacious of philosophic novelties, the most anarchical transvaluation of all respectable traditions. Sometimes it is pictured as an insurgence of emotion against logic, sometimes as an assault of theology upon the integrity of Pure Reason. One day it is described as the reckless theorizing of dilettanti whose knowledge of philosophy is too superficial to require refutation, the next as a ...
— Pragmatism • D.L. Murray

... or my keen, sensuous desire for and pleasure in Effie. These were selfish, sincere things, fundamental and instinctive, as sincere as the leap of a tiger. But until matters drew to a crisis with Beatrice, there was an immense imaginative insurgence of a quite different quality. I am setting down here very gravely, and perhaps absurdly, what are no doubt elementary commonplaces for innumerable people. This love that grew up between Beatrice and myself was, I think—I put it quite tentatively and rather curiously—romantic ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Insurgency" :   insurgence, revolt, uprising, rising



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