Definition of secessionist in English:
secessionist
noun sɪˈsɛʃənɪstsəˈsɛʃ(ə)nəst
A person who favours formal withdrawal from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
Example sentencesExamples
- A deserter claimed he was the victim of "Norwegian secessionists."
- Their claim is that they were never part of the country and are therefore neither separatists nor secessionists.
- I have been following keenly the developments in the treason trial of the secessionists.
- The coming industrial glory, secessionists argued, would be quite compatible with the state's slave society.
- The army is still at war with secessionists in the oil-rich province.
- It has been surmised that some of the so-called secessionists would continue to refer to the resolution to vindicate their demand for a plebiscite in the disputed state.
- They frequently knew the mercenaries fighting for the ultimately unsuccessful secessionists, and even talked to them by radio.
- The government will continue peace talks with secessionists despite the passing Friday of a deadline for forging a peace deal.
- Secessionists eagerly implicated the national tariff, which had redirected Southern profits to Northern manufactures.
- To a certain extent, the position of Virginia secessionists was hardly new.
adjective sɪˈsɛʃənɪstsəˈsɛʃ(ə)nəst
Favouring formal withdrawal from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
the leader of a secessionist movement
Example sentencesExamples
- The ruling party called the secessionist resolution a "retrograde step" and vowed to quash it when it is debated at the federal level.
- It's certainly a big step forward, particularly as another secessionist group reached a political settlement with the government in 1996.
- He encouraged legal reform, promoted dialogue with secessionist leaders, and attempted to end discrimination against the ethnic minority.
- They were abducted by the secessionist guerrilla group they went to interview.
- The government portrays the new laws on 'ordinary' autonomy as a large concession to all the resource-rich provinces which are showing secessionist symptoms.
- Enforcing federal law against secessionist states precipitated war.
- The country's transition would descend from a matter of managing change to managing chaos, especially as secessionist regions become a breeding ground for anarchy.
- The secessionist government boycotted the elections in order to bolster its claims for international recognition as a separate state.
- They did this despite warnings from a number of quarters that the secessionist acts would provoke violent conflicts between ethnic groups.
- The abandoned copper mine in the mountains has been controlled by secessionist rebels since the late 1980s.
Rhymes
expressionist, impressionist, progressionist
Definition of secessionist in US English:
secessionist
nounsəˈseSH(ə)nəstsəˈsɛʃ(ə)nəst
A person who favors formal withdrawal from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
Example sentencesExamples
- It has been surmised that some of the so-called secessionists would continue to refer to the resolution to vindicate their demand for a plebiscite in the disputed state.
- Their claim is that they were never part of the country and are therefore neither separatists nor secessionists.
- A deserter claimed he was the victim of "Norwegian secessionists."
- The government will continue peace talks with secessionists despite the passing Friday of a deadline for forging a peace deal.
- Secessionists eagerly implicated the national tariff, which had redirected Southern profits to Northern manufactures.
- The coming industrial glory, secessionists argued, would be quite compatible with the state's slave society.
- The army is still at war with secessionists in the oil-rich province.
- They frequently knew the mercenaries fighting for the ultimately unsuccessful secessionists, and even talked to them by radio.
- I have been following keenly the developments in the treason trial of the secessionists.
- To a certain extent, the position of Virginia secessionists was hardly new.
adjectivesəˈseSH(ə)nəstsəˈsɛʃ(ə)nəst
Favoring formal withdrawal from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
the leader of a secessionist movement
Example sentencesExamples
- The abandoned copper mine in the mountains has been controlled by secessionist rebels since the late 1980s.
- The government portrays the new laws on 'ordinary' autonomy as a large concession to all the resource-rich provinces which are showing secessionist symptoms.
- The country's transition would descend from a matter of managing change to managing chaos, especially as secessionist regions become a breeding ground for anarchy.
- It's certainly a big step forward, particularly as another secessionist group reached a political settlement with the government in 1996.
- The ruling party called the secessionist resolution a "retrograde step" and vowed to quash it when it is debated at the federal level.
- They were abducted by the secessionist guerrilla group they went to interview.
- He encouraged legal reform, promoted dialogue with secessionist leaders, and attempted to end discrimination against the ethnic minority.
- They did this despite warnings from a number of quarters that the secessionist acts would provoke violent conflicts between ethnic groups.
- The secessionist government boycotted the elections in order to bolster its claims for international recognition as a separate state.
- Enforcing federal law against secessionist states precipitated war.