noun
- the quality or state of being seditious; tendency to incite rebellion against lawful authority
Usage: formal; legal contexts
Examples
- The government accused the protesters of seditiousness.
- His speeches were marked by a dangerous seditiousness that worried authorities.
- The newspaper was shut down for its alleged seditiousness.
- The court examined evidence of the defendant’s seditiousness.
- Colonial leaders were often charged with seditiousness by the crown.
- The pamphlet’s seditiousness made it illegal to distribute.