separationistn.
/sɛpəˈreɪʃənɪst/ One who advocates political separation or disruption. Also attributive or quasi-adj.
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1831 Ld. Holland Let. 3 Jan. in R. B. McDowell Public Opinion in Ireland 1801–1846 (1952) vi. 143 Withdrawing from O'Connell and the separationists.
1882 Q. Rev. July 261 The moment that Mr. Gladstone succeeded to power, the Nationalists, the Separationists and all the rest of them saw that their opportunity had come.
1903 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Romance ii. i. 48 El Demonio had, during the last two years, gutted a ship once a week, as if he wanted to help the Kingston Separationist papers.
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