secessionist
Use Secessionist in a sentence
ə adjective
2.
of or pertaining to secession or secessionists.
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secession (sɪˈsɛʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act of seceding |
| 2. | chiefly (US) (often capital) the withdrawal in 1860--61 of 11 Southern states from the Union to form the Confederacy, precipitating the American Civil War |
| [C17: from Latin sēcessiō a withdrawing, from sēcēdere to | |
| se'cessional | |
| —adj | |
| se'cessionism | |
| —n | |
| se'cessionist | |
| —n, —adj | |
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Secessionist
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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The town was also a hotbed of secessionist sentiment.
It has been nationalist or secessionist, and it has been criminal on a new and devastating scale.
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