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Definition of Confederation

1. Noun. The state of being allied or confederated.

2. Noun. A union of political organizations.

3. Noun. The act of forming an alliance or confederation.

Definition of Confederation

1. n. The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states.

Definition of Confederation

1. Proper noun. In Canada, the federal union of provinces and territories which formed Canada, beginning with New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec, and later including all the others. ¹

2. Proper noun. In Newfoundland, the political union of Newfoundland with Canada. ¹

3. Noun. A union or alliance of states or political organizations. ¹

4. Noun. The act of forming an alliance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Confederation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confederation

confederacies confederacy confederal confederalism confederalisms confederalist confederalists confederate confederate jasmine confederated

confederately confederates confederateship confederateships confederating confederation (current term) confederationism confederationist confederationists confederations

confederative confederator confederators confedered confedering confeders confelicity confer confer with conferable

Literary usage of Confederation

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

1. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Benjamin Perley Poore, United States, United States Congress. Senate (1877)
"ARTICLES OF confederation—1777.* To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the Stales affixed to our Names send greeting. ..."

2. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton (1904)
"tions of the confederation with the five great European Chap. II. Powers, parties to the Final Act of the Congress of Vienna, 1815, were habitually ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1912)
"... 64, 64 ; houses of, 68 ; and settlement of 1803, 82; enters confederation of the ... 84, 86 Schmalkaldic War, 39 Schwarzburg, enters confederation of ..."

4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1820)
"The Diet elects by the plurality of suffrages the seven members of the confederation who are to appoint the members of the central commission. 4. ..."

5. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William L. Hickey, United States (1853)
"ARTICLES OF confederation AND PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN THE STATES. (See remarks, Chapter 2, pages 129 to 131, and residue of that Chapter. ..."

6. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by Marion Mills Miller, United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"Report of Committee on the confederation—Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the Debate on the Committee's Articles: Principal Speakers, Samuel Chase [Md.], ..."

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