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noun

Secessionist n.

One who upholds secession.

(U.S. Hist.) One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will.

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Etymology of 'Secessionist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Secessionist" Quotes from Famous Books

... recognize that the way to reach that goal is not necessarily by minimizing and specializing war and war responsibility at the present time. There he falls short of his own constructive conceptions and lapses into the secessionist methods of the earlier Radicals. We have here another case strictly parallel to several we have already considered. War is a collective concern; to turn one's back upon it, to refuse to consider it as a possibility, is to leave it entirely to those who are ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... the village, and the whole population turned out to see him. He was taken to the jail, and thrust into a cage, so small that he could not lie down,—a vile, filthy place. The jailer was a brutal, hard-hearted man,—a rabid secessionist. He chuckled with delight when he turned the key on Hurst. He was kept in the cage two days, and then taken to Nashville, where he was tried before a ...

— My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field • Charles Carleton Coffin

... speech of the Governor-elect. I had adopted a plan in making the arrangements that I felt would remove from the minds of the organization workers, to whom we desired to appeal, the idea that this was a revolt or secessionist movement in the ranks of the Democratic party. The committee in charge of the meeting had selected the finest, cleanest men in our party's ranks to preside over and ...

— Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him • Joseph P. Tumulty

... should make the race. The public opinion of Georgia and of the whole South insisted on it. So he became a candidate for a fourth term. He had two opponents,—Joshua Hill, who had been a strong Union man; and Timothy Furlow, who was an ardent secessionist and a strong supporter of the Confederate administration; but Governor Brown was elected by a large majority over ...

— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris

Words linked to "Secessionist" : proponent, exponent