revolt

To rebel, particularly against authority.

The farmers had to revolt against the government to get what they deserved.

Our diſcontented Counties doe reuolt

To repel greatly.

Your brother revolts me!

I shall be told, that this abominable medley is made rather to revolt young and ingenuous minds.

To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; used with at.

The stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.

To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.

The foring clouds into fad fhowres y molt; / So to her yold the flames, and did their force reuolt.

To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.

And ſtill revolt when truth would ſet them free.

His clear intelligence revolted from the dominant sophisms of that time.

An act of revolting.

— It's a revolt? — No, Sire, it's a revolution...

The first recorded use of “insurrection” in English, indeed, is in parliamentary papers describing the armed revolt led by Jack Cade in 1450, who marched on London to protest against the corruption of Henry VI’s government. […] Thinking more metaphorically, his American contemporary James Russell Lowell wrote: “It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.” Had he lived to the year 2021, he might have changed his mind.