mutinous
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmjuːtɪnəs/
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Adjective
[edit]mutinous (comparative more mutinous, superlative most mutinous)
- Likely to commit mutiny.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “The First Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC, folio 11, recto:
- [A]nd it is without all controuerſie, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to gouernment; whereas Ignorance makes them churliſh, thwart, and mutinous; […]
- 1892, Joaquin Miller, Columbus :
- “My men grow mutinous day by day;
My men grow ghastly wan and weak.”
The stout mate thought of home; a spray
Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
- “My men grow mutinous day by day;
- Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]likely to commit mutiny
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