Definition of Rioting

1. Noun. A state of disorder involving group violence.

Exact synonyms: Riot
Generic synonyms: Disorder
Derivative terms: Riot, Riot

Definition of Rioting

1. Verb. (present participle of riot) ¹

2. Noun. A riot. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rioting

1. riot [v] - See also: riot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rioting

rioprostil
riot
riot control
riot control operations
riot gear
riot girl
riot grrl
riot grrls
riot grrrl
riot grrrls
riot gun
riot police
rioted
rioter
rioters
rioting (current term)
riotings
riotise
riotises
riotize
riotizes
riotless
riotour
riotours
riotous
riotously
riotousness
riotousnesses
riotries
riotry

Literary usage of Rioting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Alexander Forbes Irvine (1865)
"An Indictment charged the panels with Mobbing and rioting, as also, ... The Jury found the panels not guilty of Mobbing and rioting, but guilty of Breach of ..."

2. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1846)
"Also I delighted much in rioting, revelling, drinking, ston™ conver" ing, and what not, that tended to destroy the Hopeful's life swearing, lying, ..."

3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1819)
"... for the crimes of sedition, mobbing, and rioting, in manner mentioned in the criminal indictment raised against them thereanent ; bearing, ..."

4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1819)
"Proceedings in the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, against ANGUS CAMERON and JAMES MENZIES for Sedition, Mobbing, and rioting, January 15th and 17th: ..."

5. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"•rioting in South India MR. REES (Montgomery Boroughs^ : I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can give any information regarding the ..."

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