partitionismn.
/pɑːˈtɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /pəˈtɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /pɑrˈtɪʃ(ə)nˌɪz(ə)m/ Politics.
Belief in or advocacy of the principle of partition of a country or territory.
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1938 Jewish Chron. 1 July 35/1 (heading) ‘Partitionism’ a reflection of demoralisation.
1981 Times 24 Sept. 11/1 The Provisional IRA's campaign of coercion..has led to the growth of ‘partitionism’ in the Republic, ‘a desire to keep the state we have and not to do anything to make it easier to bring north and south together’.
1996 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 21 May b3 We will not do this by combatting Quebec nationalism with a suffocating paternalism of our own, disguised as a ‘consensus’, whether it's ‘moderation’ or ‘partitionism’.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1938- to range up
- to rap a person on the fingers
- to rap a person on the knuckles
- to rap and rear
- to rap and rend
- to rap and run
- to rap and wring
- to rap on the fingers
- to rap on the knuckles
- to rape and pillage
- to rape and rend
- to rape and run
- to rape and scrape
- to rape and wring
- to rarely catch a person tardy
- to rase in sunder
- to rase on sunder
- to rate by candle-end
- to rate by candleend
- to rate up
- to rattle a person's cage
- to rattle away
- to rattle it out
- to rattle one's dags
- to rattle the sabre