Sonderbundn.
/ˈzɒndəbʊnt/, U.S. /ˈsɑndərˌbʊnd/ historical in later use.
A league or alliance formed by the seven Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland (canton n.1 5a).The league was formally established in 1845 and was defeated in a civil war of 1847, after which Switzerland became a federal state.
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1847 G. Grote Let. 4 Sept. in Seven Lett. on Recent Politics Switzerland i. 17 The separate league of Seven Cantons, called the Sonderbund.
1889 T. S. Fay Three Germanys II. xix. 827 The Sonderbund army was routed; the council of war, the government of Lucerne, and the Jesuits fled.
1932 R. B. Mowat States of Europe 1815–71 v. xxvii. 332 Palmerston wanted the war to break out, so that the Conservative Sonderbund should be defeated.
1973 G. M. D. Howat & A. J. P. Taylor Dict. World Hist. 1465/1 The outnumbered Sonderbund expected Austrian and French help.
2003 H. Bossard-Borner in C. Clark & W. Kaiser Culture Wars x. 267 Just as in the time of the Sonderbund, quarrels over church policy were interwoven with a political dispute over constitutional reform.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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