The phrase "abortive revolt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a failed or unsuccessful uprising or rebellion.
Example: "The attempt to overthrow the government was an abortive revolt that ended in chaos and disappointment."
Alternatives: "failed uprising" or "unsuccessful rebellion".
In 1577 an abortive revolt was led by John Wolfe, who maintained his right to print whatever he pleased.
They stress that Armenian militants were rebelling against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, and discount or ignore the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians after the abortive revolt.
Before Lord Edward Fitzgerald's abortive revolt of 1798 he had tried to induce the rebels to wait for French military aid.
Bandiera brothers, Italian brothers who were followers of Giuseppe Mazzini and who led an abortive revolt against Austrian rule in Italy.
Syria last faced serious unrest in 1982 in the city of Hama, when many thousands were killed in an abortive revolt by the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Boeotian League was again dissolved, and after an abortive revolt (335) against Alexander the Great of Macedon, Thebes and the rest of Boeotia fell permanently under external domination.
From 1645 on there were several abortive revolts, after each of which medicine men were especially singled out for reprisals.
Mason's favoured comparison is a much more distant year, when abortive revolts spread across Europe at speed, and two fired-up German radicals wrote The Communist Manifesto.
Enactments from earlier times existed throughout the Austrian domains, such as a Hungarian one that was issued as a penalty in 1514 following an abortive peasant revolt.
He was caught up in the abortive Leinster revolt of 999 1000, after which he was forced to submit to the King of Munster, Brian Boru.
There were sporadic revolts, such as those that occurred on the mainland and on the islands of the Aegean following the defeat of the Ottoman navy in 1571 by Don John of Austria, the short-lived revolt launched by Dionysius Skylosophos in Epirus in 1611, and the abortive uprising in the Peloponnese in 1770 at the time of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 74.
