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secessionist
secesh
  1. (archaic, regional, informal) secessionist, a supporter of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It shows very plainly that although the secesh may be smart on shackles, they are nothing on shoes.”
      “Answer: Under the old secesh times every morning till night beginning at daylight and continuing till 5 or 6 at night.”
      “I hain't no GRE't fancy fur this secesh business, that ar' a fact.”
seceder
  1. One who secedes, such as from a country or organization
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The name Seminole itself, some historians say, meant pioneer or seceder.”
      “When Clive saw Rosalie Faithorn saunter in with James Allys he stared, but that young seceder from his own set greeted him without embarrassment and lighted a cigarette.”
      “The United Presbyterian Church of North America was a small denomination formed in 1858 from Scottish Covenanter and Seceder traditions.”
secess
secessionism
  1. The doctrine or policy of secession.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A settlement must be based on both the realities secession is ruled out, but secessionism exists.”
      “The man who swore by the loyalty towards India, preached secessionism in the state.”
      “In 1971, Pakistan lost 55 per cent of its population to East Bengali secessionism, which produced the People's Republic of Bangladesh.”
secesher
  1. (slang) A secessionist.
secession
  1. The act of seceding.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Texas secessionists organized lynch mobs across the state to murder anyone who opposed secession.”
      “Another John is a saucy southerner who talked about two Americas while surprisingly not referring to secession.”
      “By itself, the theory of state rights or limited government could not compel secession.”
secessionisms
secessionists
  1. plural of secessionist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The coming industrial glory, secessionists argued, would be quite compatible with the state's slave society.”
      “They frequently knew the mercenaries fighting for the ultimately unsuccessful secessionists, and even talked to them by radio.”
      “Their claim is that they were never part of the country and are therefore neither separatists nor secessionists.”
secessions
  1. plural of secession
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Before the secessions of the early 1990s, an extensive network of air routes had been developed.”
      “A split would be unprecedented, even though several EU members were born of earlier secessions.”
      “Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers to put down the rebellion resulted in further secessions and both sides built up their armies.”
seceshers
  1. plural of secesher
seceders
  1. plural of seceder
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Over the centuries, schisms occurred in which the seceders switched allegiance to Rome, forming the Uniate churches.”
      “They are seceders and their participation in institutions of any kind is likely to be enthusiastic but temporary.”
      “On its disruption in 1884 he became head of the seceders, who organized themselves as the Socialist League, and was to lecture and write for the cause with great energy.”
seceshes
  1. plural of secesh
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