The Only Use
subversion
in
Animal Farm
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- For a long time there had been rumors — circulated, he had reason to think, by some malignant enemy — that there was something subversive and even revolutionary in the outlook of himself and his colleagues.†
p. 139.3subversive = a person who works from within to destroy an established order; or relating to such destructive efforts
Definitions:
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(1)
(subversion) gradual destruction (of something previously established) -- such as a government, rule, or belief
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)