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Definition of Confederative
1. Adjective. United in a confederacy or league.
Definition of Confederative
1. a. Of or pertaining to a confederation.
Definition of Confederative
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to confederates of a confederation ¹
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Definition of Confederative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confederative
Literary usage of Confederative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Exposition of the Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the by Charles Fenton Mercer (1845)
"confederative PRINCIPLE. This confederative principle that we have deprecated,
as sure to work the destruction of this government, is not to be got rid of ..."
2. The Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the United States of by Charles Fenton Mercer (1863)
"... THE INHERENT WEAKNESS OF confederative GOVERNMENTS —THE EXPERIENCE OF HISTORY—THE
CAUSE THEREOF. THE inquiry which we have set before us in these pages ..."
3. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"But a confederative republic, according to liis ideas, is entirely different ...
The opinion that ours is a confederative republic, is wholly fallacious. ..."
4. Insurrection of Poland in 1830-31: And the Russian Rule Preceding it Since 1815 by S. J. B. Gnorowski (1839)
"... which he proposed then to form into two confederative Republics—a Northern
and a Southern—on the model of the United States of America; and the Polish ..."
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