insurrectionist vs rebel

insurrectionist

noun
  • A person who provokes or takes part in an insurrection 

adj
  • Involved in or characterized by insurrection. 

rebel

noun
  • A person who resists an established authority, often violently. 

  • Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier. 

verb
  • To resist or become defiant toward an authority. 

How often have the words insurrectionist and rebel occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )