revolting

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REVOLT'ING, participle present tense 1. Changing sides; deserting. 2. Disclaiming allegiance and subjection to a prince or state. 3. Rejecting the authority of God. 4. adjective Doing violence, as to the feelings; exciting abhorrence.
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