rebellious

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REBEL'LIOUS, adjective Engaged in rebellion; renouncing the authority and dominion of the government to which allegiance is due; traitorously resisting government or lawful authority. Deuteronomy 9:7. Deuteronomy 21:18.
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