American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of subverting.
- n. The condition of being subverted.
- n. Obsolete A cause of overthrow or ruin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of subverting or overthrowing, or the state of being overthrown; entire overthrow; utter ruin; destruction.
- n. The cause of overthrow or destruction.
- n. Synonyms Overturning, downfall, demolition. See subvert.
- n. the act of subverting or the condition of being subverted
- n. a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction.
- n. destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
- n. the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government
- From Old French subversion. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English subversioun, from Old French subversion, from Late Latin subversiō, subversiōn-, from Latin subversus, past participle of subvertere, to subvert; see subvert. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
“Early Wednesday, as part of the strike, the lawyers presented a petition to the High Court in Kampala expressing their concern about what they called the subversion of the rule of law.”
“The result of this subversion is a surprisingly mature and complex look at gender politics — revealing the power of comics and science fiction to address feminist issues and to reach a younger, predominantly male audience with a enlightening message.”
“Department and the White House always say that there are three obstacles to improving relations between Cuban and the United States, and they are your allegiance to the Soviet Union, what they call subversion in this hemisphere, and the large number of your troops in Africa.”
“It's the report that found assurance of future acts of Japanese-American subversion from the "disturbing and confirming" fact that none had yet been taken.”
“MZS again: "Gleefully sensationalistic and paced like an adults-only shoot-'em-up video game, [The Hills Have Eyes 2 is] ultimately less interested in subversion and subtext than in making viewers squirm, shriek and throw up into their popcorn bags.”
“But as the Turkish society has been thoroughly Kemalized by the Kemalofascist military, bureaucracy, and judiciary for almost a century, and as it has also been thoroughly Islamized by the their Muslim leaders, with their strong economic base; there is no danger of any form of subversion from the Turkish people against the status quo or any wish for real democracy.”
“Honestly, libertarians are dangerous anarchists and sociopaths, and any organization like this assisting in subversion of US and international law to create war should be arrested.”
“The Appendix can, therefore, be seen to be fore grounded against the genre of Appendices and to subvert readerly preconceptions as to what an Appendix should do; this subversion is suggested, moreover, by the very inclusion of an Appendix in a novel, since appendices are ordinarily associated with academic or technical works.”
“To conclude then: the discourse of subversion is a site of political contention, but that discourse also constrains and determines the very nature of the contention.”
“The transition to an anti-democratic discourse of subversion is most evident in the changes in the legal status of blasphemy.”
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