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Meanings of secession in English

Spanish
sezession

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

sezession
Portuguese
secessão
Spanish
secesión

Formal separation from an alliance or federation.

secessão
Russian
сецессия
Portuguese
secessão
Spanish
secesión
Catalan
secessió

Act of withdrawing from an organization, union, military alliance or especially a political entity.

сецессия
Usage of secession in English
1
South Sudan will vote on a key referendum on secession in January.
Reuters
2
Beijing's controversial new law criminalises subversion, secession and collusion with foreign forces.
BBC
3
Every so often, a secession is attempted for assorted pocket-lining political reasons.
Internecine
4
The vote is widely thought to likely end in secession from Sudan.
Reuters
5
The sympathies of my audience were, in the main, with the secession.
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the ...
6
Nullification was a remedy inside of the Union; secession a remedy outside.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 / From Lincoln to Garfield, wit...
7
The large ward I am in is used for secession soldiers exclusively.
Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
8
The Methodism of the town had gone along without any local secession.
The Damnation of Theron Ware
9
There is no use now in discussing the abstract question of secession.
A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions o...
10
He shoots her four times from the floor in Winchester rapid secession.
The hateful eight
11
In Maryland we are dull, and cannot comprehend the right of secession.
Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis
12
The separation or secession of the Colonial Church from that of England.
A School History of the United States
13
Ever since the secession the Israelites and Jews had been jealous enemies.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
14
None of the Cotton States had made the first movement towards secession.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
15
According to polls, roughly half of Catalans are in favour of secession.
The Guardian
16
Some favored secession; others advocated nullification, and this was what was done.
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War
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Translations for secession
Portuguese
secessão
Catalan
secessió
Secession through the time
Secession across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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