Treason vs. Rebellion

Treasonnoun

The crime of betraying one’s own country.

Rebellionnoun

(uncountable) Armed resistance to an established government or ruler.

‘The government is doing its best to stop rebellion in the country.’;

Treasonnoun

An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence.

Rebellionnoun

(countable) Defiance of authority or control; the act of rebelling.

‘Having a tattoo was Mathilda's personal rebellion against her parents.’;

Treasonnoun

The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.

‘The treason of the murthering in the bed.’;

Rebellionnoun

(countable) An organized, forceful subversion of the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.

‘The army general led a successful rebellion and became president of the country.’;

Treasonnoun

Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.

‘If he be false, she shall his treason see.’;

Rebellionnoun

The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.

‘No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed than men of desperate principles resort to it.’;

Treasonnoun

a crime that undermines the offender's government

Rebellionnoun

Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.

Treasonnoun

disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior

Rebellionnoun

refusal to accept some authority or code or convention;

‘each generation must have its own rebellion’; ‘his body was in rebellion against fatigue’;

Treasonnoun

an act of deliberate betrayal

Rebellionnoun

organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

Treason

Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state.

Rebellionnoun

an act of armed resistance to an established government or leader

‘the authorities put down a rebellion by landless colonials’; ‘the Bretons rose in rebellion against the King’;

Rebellionnoun

the action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention

‘an act of teenage rebellion’;

Rebellion

Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order. It refers to the open resistance against the orders of an established authority.A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and then manifests itself by the refusal to submit or to obey the authority responsible for this situation.