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The synonyms of “Treason” are: betrayal, perfidy, treachery, high treason, lese majesty, subversiveness, traitorousness
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “treason” as a noun can have the following definitions:
betrayal | An act of deliberate betrayal. These developments represented a betrayal of democracy. |
high treason | A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12. |
lese majesty | Impressiveness in scale or proportion. |
perfidy | The state of being deceitful and untrustworthy. Hapsburg perfidy. |
subversiveness | Disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior. |
traitorousness | Disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior. |
treachery | Betrayal of trust. The treachery of language. |
apostate | A person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle. An apostate Roman Catholic. |
betray | Be sexually unfaithful to one’s partner in marriage. The spy betrayed his country. |
betrayal | An act of deliberate betrayal. These developments represented a betrayal of democracy. |
betrayer | One who reveals confidential information in return for money. |
cheat | An act of cheating a fraud or deception. She cheats on her husband. |
cheating | Not faithful to a spouse or lover. |
deceive | (of a thing) give (someone) a mistaken impression. I didn t intend to deceive people into thinking it was French champagne. |
defector | A person who abandons their duty (as on a military post. Staff interviewed escapees and defectors to the West. |
disloyal | (of a remark or thought) demonstrating a lack of loyalty. Disloyal mutterings about his leadership. |
disloyalty | The quality of being disloyal. An accusation of disloyalty and betrayal. |
duplicity | Deceitfulness. The president was accused of duplicity in his dealings with Congress. |
faithless | Without religious faith. They were ungodly and faithless. |
fraudulence | Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage. |
infidelity | The quality of being unfaithful. Her infidelity continued after her marriage. |
insubordination | Defiance of authority. He was dismissed for insubordination. |
insurgent | A person fighting against a government or invading force; a rebel or revolutionary. Alleged links with insurgent groups. |
mutiny | Engage in a mutiny against an authority. A mutiny by those manning the weapons could trigger a global war. |
perfidious | Deceitful and untrustworthy. The perfidious Judas. |
perfidy | The state of being deceitful and untrustworthy. It was an example of his perfidy. |
quisling | A traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country. He had the Quisling owner of the factory arrested. |
rebel | A person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority especially in the hope of improving conditions. Respect did not prevent children from rebelling against their parents. |
renegade | Become a renegade. Johnson had renegaded from the Confederacy. |
seditious | Inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch. The letter was declared seditious. |
traitor | A person who says one thing and does another. He was a traitor to his own class. |
traitorous | Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor. A lying traitorous insurrectionist. |
treacherous | Tending to betray especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans. A treacherous Gestapo agent. |
treachery | An act of deliberate betrayal. Many died because of his treachery. |
treasonable | Having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor. There was no evidence of treasonable activity. |
turncoat | A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. They denounced him as a turncoat. |
unfaithful | Having sexual relations with someone other than your husband or wife, or your boyfriend or girlfriend. She felt that to sell the house would be unfaithful to her parents memory. |
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