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con⋅fed⋅er⋅a⋅cy

  [kuhn-fed-er-uh-see, -fed-ruh-see]
–noun, plural -cies.
1. an alliance between persons, parties, states, etc., for some purpose.
2. a group of persons, parties, states, etc., united by such a confederacy.
3. a combination of persons for unlawful purposes; conspiracy.
4. the Confederacy. Confederate States of America.
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME confederacie < AF; see confederate, -acy
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Confederate States of America

 
–plural noun
the group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61.
Also called the Confederacy.
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Confederacy

The Confederate States of America; the government formed in 1861 by southern states that proclaimed their secession from the United States. Jefferson Davis was its president. The Confederacy was dissolved after the Civil War. (Compare Union.)

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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