SUBVERSION

subversion. Subversion, n. an overthrow, ruin, destruction

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Sub‐ver″sion (?), n. [[L. subversio: cf. F. subversion. See Subvert.]] The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The subversion of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. Evelyn. Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve. Rogers.