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Definition of Annexation

1. Noun. Incorporation by joining or uniting.

2. Noun. The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation. "A protectorate has frequently been a first step to annexation"

Definition of Annexation

1. n. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.

Definition of Annexation

1. Noun. An act of annexing, or territories that have been annexed. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) A legal merging of a territory into another body. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Annexation

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Annexation

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Literary usage of Annexation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United by Horace Greeley (1856)
"Mr. Birney, in a letter published on the eve of the Election, declared that he regarded Mr. Clay's election as more favorable to Annexation than Mr. Polk's, ..."

2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"The Whig Convention in Vermont regarded the movement for the annexation of Texas as part of a plan to perpetuate the slave power, and declared that ..."

3. A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential by Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland (1860)
"Mr. Birney in a letter published on the eve of the Election, declared that he regarded Mr. Clay's election as more favorable to Annexation than Mr. Folk's, ..."

4. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"This important letter, the basis of all Texian " immediate " annexation, opens thus : " ' I learn from a source entitledto the fullest confidence, ..."

5. The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess (1897)
"Some of them had already come to doubt whether the annexation of Texas alone would subserve their interests, since the slave population might be thereby ..."

6. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1917)
"Forcible annexation was this policy; its specific ... This annexation, or “re-annexation” (the lying catch-phrase of the day), comprised not Texas alone in ..."

7. Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1776-1861 by William MacDonald (1897)
"Joint Resolution for the Annexation ‘of Texas March x, 1845 IN 1821 the United States of Mexico, until then a part of the Spanish possessions in America, ..."

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