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Secession

noun

An Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s. Synonym: sezession.

The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War.

Formal separation from an alliance or federation. Synonym: withdrawal.

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"Secession" Quotes from Famous Books

... contumelious name of Tories,—those Americans who, against all loss and ignominy, had steadily remained loyal to the unity of the British empire, unflinching in their rejection of the constitutional heresy of American secession. How should these execrable beings—the defeated party in a long and most rancorous civil war—be treated by the party which was at last victorious? Many of them were already in exile: should they be kept there? Many were still in this country: should they ...

— Patrick Henry • Moses Coit Tyler

... of the secession of his State he made in brief sharp sentences and plunged at once into the reasons ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... Tarquins been banished from Rome and the monarchy abolished, when quarrels commenced between the orders. In the year 494 B.C., the secession of the commonalty to the Mons Sacer led to the establishment of the tribunate. Of what did the plebeians complain? That they were poor, exhausted by the interest which they paid to the proprietors,—foeneratoribus; that the republic, administered for the benefit of the nobles, did ...

— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

... element a moral secession was apparent. Convention they had left behind with their boiled shirts and their store clothes, and crazed with the idea of speedy fortune, they were even now straining at the leash of decency. It was a howling mob, elately riotous, ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... Zulu king, had exterminated the Kafir population through parts of the interior, which therefore stood open to European settlement. Thus it was that the Great Trek, as the Dutch call it,—the great emigration, or secession, as we should say,—of the Dutch Boers began in 1836, twenty-five years before another question of colour and slavery brought about a still greater secession on the other side of ...

— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce

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