What's the difference between seditious and treasonable?
Seditious
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.
(a.) Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the wedding, she found herself at the receiving end of good ol’ southern disapproval when she decided to keep her maiden name – an act that was seen as virtually seditious in unreconstructed 1970s Arkansas.
(2) Now we know that the Tory prime minister intended to extend the charge of seditious insurrection , not only to leftwing Labour councils in Liverpool and London resisting cuts in services, but against the Labour party as a whole.
(3) The annual season of big executive payouts is about to commence once again; at this rate, do not be surprised if the seditious spirit of Millbank spreads – and fast.
(4) Here are two recent purchases: two literally seditious texts.
(5) The 74-year-old, who has spent more than half of his life behind bars, was convicted of “seditious conspiracy” for plotting against the US.
(6) No matter: his relatively mild contribution took its place among seditious quotes from no end of former New Labour high-ups.
(7) Those who stood to defend union strength and the post-war social democratic settlement were seditious outsiders, to be destroyed in a domestic reprise of her Falklands campaign against the Argentinian dictator General Galtieri.
(8) The CSP believes that “American civil and political society is under systematic, sustained and seditious assault – a ‘Stealth Jihad’ – by adherents to Shariah”.
(9) It is surely indicative of the seditious mindset that the meeting was secretly taped and, I understand, not just by one person.
(10) He was prosecuted for seditious libel, financially ruined and spent the following two years in Newgate prison.
(11) The Labour and Liberal Democrat parties are custodians of the best of Britain's radical traditions: the traditions not only of Orwell, but of John Milton, John Stuart Mill and the men and women who struggled against the Stamp Acts and the blasphemy and seditious libel laws.
(12) Lim was jailed for 18 months under the law in 1998 for allegedly making seditious remarks in his defence of a rape victim.
(13) One of the most seditious aspects of the FCC merger review is its chilling action on the participants in the [net neutrality] debate.
(14) That set me off, and probably all my writing has been done within the same seditious framework.
(15) Photograph: Jon Tonks for the Guardian "This is one of the most bloody-minded, seditious areas of the country, and always has been," he tells me.
Treasonable
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt.
Example Sentences:
(1) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
(2) It will be payback time, after Mutharika and five other ministers were arrested and charged with treason for trying to block her ascent.
(3) Instead of dealing with a political problem, China has sought confrontation and control – threatening new national security laws that outlaw treason .
(4) The protester was later identified as the Rev Paul Williamson, who once tried to charge an earlier archbishop of Canterbury with high treason for ordaining female priests.
(5) December 5, 2013 10.21pm GMT Mandela was arrested in 1956 for "high treason" against the state, in a case that concluded without conviction.
(6) Arrested last year on suspicion of spying for arch-enemy Armenia, the couple also face treason charges in a separate case.
(7) But a Conservative MP who recently wrote to the Metropolitan police to call for a criminal investigation into the Guardian, accused the newspaper of potential treason.
(8) In addition to tax evasion and illegal business activities, she has also been charged with treason, for allegedly spying for Armenia.
(9) In a statement to a Senate judiciary committee he accused the British actor of coming “perilously near to treason” against the United States.
(10) On Monday the Sunni Ittehad Council, an umbrella group representing followers of the moderate Barelvi school of Islam , demanded Hassan be tried for treason.
(11) Pakistan's official commission investigating Bin Laden's presence in the country last year recommended that Afridi be tried for treason.
(12) Musharraf was dramatically diverted to a military hospital on 2 January after feeling a "heaviness" in his chest while he was driving to his treason trial.
(13) Everyone who happens to threaten or is perceived to be threatening his position is accused of committing a treasonous act, even if he doesn’t prove it.
(14) But pro-European presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, known as the "chocolate king," who currently leads in the polls, said on Thursday that any delay of the elections would be "treason" and would not happen no matter the circumstances.
(15) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
(16) Most were men and most had been convicted of murder, although Thomas and Albert also executed some prisoners who had been convicted of treason.
(17) But if that has turned not out to be true – if it is less and less accepted in rightward-drifting Israeli society that there can be such a thing as non-political information, and B’Tselem’s traditional activities are dismissed as treason – what point is there in trying any more?
(18) It is believed that Dokuchayev and Mikhailov face treason charges, which carry a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.
(19) Whenever we had a special campaign or an important political case - for example, the treason trial - we received financial assistance from sympathetic individuals and organisations in the western countries.
(20) "Generals like those in charge of Ilovaysk should be imprisoned for treason," said Skillt.