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Confederation   /kənfˌɛdərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
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Confederation  n.  
1.
The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states. "The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves." "This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England."
2.
The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
Articles of confederation. See under Article.





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"Confederation" Quotes from Famous Books



... L. Le Grutli et Guillaume Tell, ou defense de la tradition vulgaire sur les origines de la confederation suisse. ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... Hampshire and part of Maine.... Dissensions among the inhabitants.... Confederation of the New England colonies.... Rhode Island excluded from it.... Separate chambers provided for the two branches of the Legislature.... New England takes part with Parliament.... Treaty with Acadie.... Petition of the ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) • John Marshall
... shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any ...
— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews
... Kentucky historian. It was well known among the settlements that the Wyandots treated their captives with consideration, and that they seldom resorted to torture by fire. Though few in numbers, they acquired the acknowledged supremacy in the confederation of the northwest, were intrusted by Wayne at the treaty of Greenville with the custody of the great belt, the symbol of peace and union, and were given the principal copy of the treaty of peace. Between the Wyandot and the Ottawa, ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce
... name is connected is, after the purely legendary feat of Tell, the best known and most popular in the early history of the Swiss Confederation. We are told how, at a critical moment in the great battle of Sempach, when the Swiss had failed to break the serried ranks of the Austrian knights, a man of Unterwalden, Arnold von Winkelried by name, came to the rescue. Commending his wife and children to the care of his ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various


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