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se·ces·sion

(sĭ-sĕsh′ən)
n.
1. The act of seceding.
2. often Secession The withdrawal of 11 Southern states from the Union in 1860-1861, precipitating the US Civil War.

[Latin sēcessiō, sēcessiōn-, from sēcessus, past participle of sēcēdere, to secede; see secede.]

se·ces′sion·al adj.
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secession

(sɪˈsɛʃən)
n
1. the act of seceding
2. (Historical Terms) (often capital) chiefly US 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 secede]
seˈcessional adj
seˈcessionˌism n
seˈcessionist n, adj
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se•ces•sion

(sɪˈsɛʃ ən)

n.
1. an act or instance of seceding.
2. (often cap.) the withdrawal from the Union of 11 southern states in the period 1860–61, which brought on the Civil War.
[1525–35; < Latin sēcessiō withdrawal]
se•ces′sion•al, adj.
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Secession

a body of seceders, 1600; secessionists collectively, 1862. Also, secesh.
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Secession

The act of leaving the Union by any state.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. secession - an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
school - a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting"
art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles
2. Secession - the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
3. secession - formal separation from an alliance or federation
separation - the act of dividing or disconnecting
breakaway, breaking away - the act of breaking away or withdrawing from; "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood"
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secession

noun withdrawal, break, split, defection, seceding, apostasy, disaffiliation the Ukraine's secession from the Soviet Union
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Translations

secession

[sɪˈseʃən] Nsecesión f, separación f (from de)
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secession

[sɪˈsɛʃən] nsécession f
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secession

nAbspaltung f; (US Hist) → Sezession f
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secession

[sɪˈsɛʃn] n (frm) secession (from)secessione f (da)
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Dr Mahathir also compared his relatively rosy situation with French President Emmanuel Macron who faces rife protests by the Yellow Vests movement, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez who has to deal with the Catalan secession crisis.
The Catalan secession crisis and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's decision to take a more conciliatory tone with pro-independence parties, whose votes are crucial to the legislative agenda of his minority government, has angered many conservatives in Spain.
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In her famous book 'The March of Folly,' the American historian Barbara Tuchman warned against the urge to 'throw away the greater for the less' and to 'pursue the unworkable at the sacrifice of the possible.' Leaders on both sides of Spain's secession crisis would be wise to heed her words.
Cultivating political allies, Stanton rose to serve in three presidential cabinets: as attorney general for James Buchanan during the secession crisis, as Lincoln's second war secretary, and in the same position for Andrew Johnson until supporting his impeachment.
It was January 4, 1861, and President Buchanan called for national day of fasting to meet the challenge of the Secession Crisis. In New York City, Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall took to his pulpit at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun.
And now, with the UK, one of the European Union's strongest member states economically and militarily, holding a referendum on June 23 on whether to leave the EU (so-called Brexit), Europe could soon be facing a secession crisis.
And now, with the UK, one of the European Union's strongest member states economically and militarily, holding a referendum on June 23 on whether to leave the EU (so-called Brexit), Europe could soon be facing a secession crisis. Indeed, a massive crisis of trust vis-a-vis Europe and its institutions has developed in most EU member states, fueling a revival of nationalist political parties and ideas and a slackening of European solidarity.
Organized alphabetically, entries address such topics as the abolition of British slavery, various political parties, Frederick Douglass, federalists, legislation, the Haitian Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, literature, antislavery songs, the Mexican War, Quakers, the secession crisis and abolitionists, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, and the Underground Railroad.
John Ashworth carries Buchanan's failures into the secession crisis and, like Huston, shows that his options were limited by his faith in the political system.
Bezler's departure comes amid tensions between Russia and the West over its annexation of Crimea and what the United States described earlier as Russian agents stoking a flaring secession crisis in eastern Ukraine.