单词 | secessionist |
释义 | secessionistn.adj. One who favours secession; one who joins in a secession. a. spec. in U.S. History. One in favour of the attempt of the Southern States to withdraw from the Union. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > Confederate cause > support for > supporter butternut1810 fire-eater1851 secessionist1860 confederate1861 rebel1895 reb1897 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Secessionists, the party in the South which would dissolve the Union, or go out of it immediately, without the coöperation of other States. Another party, calling themselves ‘coöperationists’, would only dissolve it when other States had joined them. 1861 J. R. Lowell E Pluribus Unum in Prose Wks. (1890) V. 52 The list of grievances put forward by the secessionists is a sham and a pretence. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 14 July 32/2 The secessionists made war, not only on the Union, but on the progress of the age. b. gen. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > one who favours or advocates secession decessionist1866 secessionist1881 1881 G. J. Holyoake in Daily News 26 Oct. 6/4 The Irish Secessionists. 1901 Daily Chron. 1 July 3/5 Their [i.e. Austrian painters] work suggests that as Secessionists, they have felt the necessity of doing something as no one has done it before. 1902 Scotsman 3 Jan. 6/2 Other ‘secessionists’ [‘blackleg’ workmen] managed to reach their homes safely, but only under strong police escort. c. attributive and adj. ΚΠ 1861 Morning Chron. 3 Aug. The plough lying abandoned, as it was left by the secessionist owner. 1894 Mag. of Art 17 379 Salon of the Champ de Mars..the secessionist Salon. 1898 J. McCarthy Story Gladstone 239 Disraeli accepted the support of the secessionist Liberals. 1954 B. North & R. North tr. M. Duverger Polit. Parties ii. i. 294 If a party is clearly in a minority in the country as a whole but in a majority in certain districts its attitude becomes autonomist or even secessionist. 1962 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 19/1 Mr. Gizenga, arrested and accused of ‘secessionist activities’. 1978 Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. 16c/3 I learned of the secessionist movement in the Upper Peninsula. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.adj.1860 |
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