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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
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: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.
- Of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny.
Synonyms
Translations
of, pertaining to, or constituting mutiny