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Definition of Separationist
1. Noun. An advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union).
Category relationships: Church, Church Service
Generic synonyms: Advocate, Advocator, Exponent, Proponent
Specialized synonyms: White Separatist
Derivative terms: Separate, Separatism, Separatist
Definition of Separationist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Separationist
Literary usage of Separationist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Germany, England, and Scotland: Or, Recollections of a Swiss Minister by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1848)
"The Scottish and the separationist Systems. Differences. Complete and Imperfect.
Positive and Negative. Doctrine and Discipline. Effectual and Ineffectual. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1886)
"For the defence of colonial federation sc may appeal to the second verse of the
same poem, and to the indignant refutation of the separationist school in ..."
3. Statistics by New South Wales Bureau of Statistics (1900)
"The Queensland Premier, Sir SW Griffith, so far entertained the proposals of the
separationist Party—or was so far swayed by their •Citation—that he ..."
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