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- se·cession·ism noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of secessionist1
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Example Sentences
Better for Russia to annex Venice, Catalonia or Alaska (all of which have well-publicized if improbable secessionist movements).
If the flames of separatism in Punjab seemed to be simmering, the secessionist strife in Kashmir was just peaking.
That said, the secessionist impulse was and remains a political loser.
Earlier, Hunter had been a leader in the League of the South, a secessionist organization.
In fact, there are serious reasons why the North itself should take the lead in a secessionist movement.
I am, I hope, too good a patriot to be a secessionist, much less a rebel.
The federal system established in 1789 had to fight the secessionist efforts of the confederated slave-holding states.
But every member of this church, he added, must be loyal, and therefore no secessionist could join.
A Douglas Democrat, a Douglas elector, and a strong secessionist, who had deserted to the enemy.
Houston and Pryor (see Brewer, pp. 324, 326) were neither Union nor secessionist, but constitutional.
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