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Meanings of secessionist in English

Of or belonging to separatism.

Usage of secessionist in English
1
Rajiv was assassinated by members of a Sri Lankan secessionist Tamil group.
The new yorker
2
Captain Edney himself came to investigate the matter, accompanied by the secessionist.
The Drummer Boy
3
Jeremic warned the ICJ ruling would boost secessionist movements across the world.
Reuters
4
A violent secessionist, his morbid imagination had made of Lincoln another Caesar.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
5
Yemen's state news agency was hacked on Saturday, apparently by southern secessionist sympathisers.
Reuters
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He sacked its secessionist government and called a snap election for Dec. 21.
Reuters
7
The officer had worked on al Qaeda and secessionist issues, the sources said.
Reuters
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No secessionist group has claimed responsibility for any of the incidents.
Reuters
9
Then President Ali Abdullah Saleh crushed southern secessionist forces and preserved the union.
Reuters
10
Ivan allied with the secessionist Mongol states against the Golden Horde.
1492 the year our world began
11
What is it to me that the man is a secessionist?
The Drummer Boy
12
Are you a secessionist, captain, or what are your political principles?
Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina
13
There is also a strong secessionist movement in the south.
The Guardian
14
The country is also struggling to contain simmering unrest from a southern secessionist movement.
Reuters
15
He was a secessionist from the great army of adventurers.
Birds of Prey
16
But even so you helped to put down the secessionist movement in your province.
Roma eterna
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