Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-VOLT'
RE-VOLT', n.
- Desertion; change of sides; more correctly, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to one's prince or government; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
- Gross departure from duty. – Shak.
- In Scripture, a rejection of divine government; departure from God; disobedience. – Is. lix.
- A revolter. [Not in use.] – Shak.
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