Hypertext Webster Gateway: "subversion"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Subversion \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 [by a storm] 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
subversion
n 1: destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty;
undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor";
"the big city's subversion of rural innocence" [syn: {corruption}]
2: the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a
legally constituted government [syn: {subversive activity}]
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