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noun
1.
an act or instance of seceding.
2.
(often initial capital letter) U.S. History. the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860–61, which brought on the Civil War.
3.
(usually initial capital letter) Fine Arts. a style of art in Germany and Austria concurrent with and related to Art Nouveau.
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Example Sentences
- The tension over money abetted talk of secession and an unusually divisive political season this fall.
- The key to a peaceful secession anywhere is that both parts of the original whole should agree to go their separate ways.
- His reluctance to make definitive public statements on the secession crisis was an ongoing theme in his remarks on this journey.
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Word Origin & History
secession
1530s, from L. secessionem (nom. secessio), from pp. stem of secedere "secede," from se- "apart" (see secret) + cedere "to go" (see cede). Originally in a Roman historical context, "temporary migration of plebeians from the city to compel patricians
EXPANDto address their grievances;" modern use in reference to religious or political unions dates from 1650s.
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secession definition
The withdrawal from the United States of eleven southern states in 1860 and 1861. The seceding states formed a government, the Confederacy, in early 1861. Hostilities against the remaining United States, the Union, began in April 1861 (see Fort Sumter), and the Civil War followed.
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