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Antonyms for secessionist
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : si-sesh-uh-nist |
| Phonetic Transcription : sɪˈsɛʃ ə nɪst |
Definition of secessionist
Origin :- 1860, first recorded in U.S. context, from secession + -ist (colloquial short form secesh, noun and adjective, is attested from 1861); the earlier noun had been seceder, but this had religious overtones, especially in reference to Scottish Church history.
- As in radical : noun person who advocates significant, often extreme change
- As in rebel : noun person who does not obey
- As in insurrectionary : noun rebel
- As in insurrectionist : noun rebel
- As in revolutionist : noun rebel
- "All that is easily provided for," replied the Secessionist.
- Extract from : « Among the Pines » by James R. Gilmore
- I am, I hope, too good a patriot to be a secessionist, much less a rebel.
- Extract from : « Left on Labrador » by Charles Asbury Stephens
- He has been the most active Secessionist in Adair County, and the most desperate one.
- Extract from : « A Lieutenant at Eighteen » by Oliver Optic
- I was sitting in his head-quarters when a St. Louis Secessionist entered.
- Extract from : « The Secret Service. » by Albert D. Richardson
- A Secessionist had fled from his home, leaving his flocks and herds behind.
- Extract from : « The Boys of '61 » by Charles Carleton Coffin.
- The secessionist element was voluntarily or perforce excluded.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 » by Various
- Every Secessionist, North and South, understood and boasted of it.
- Extract from : « The Struggle for Missouri » by John McElroy
- He is a red-hot Secessionist, unt wants to kill every Yankee in the country.
- Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) » by John McElroy
- Truth is too precious for a secessionist, thirsting for innocent blood.
- Extract from : « The Iron Furnace » by John H. Aughey
- American Indian as slaveholder and secessionist (Cleveland, 1915).
- Extract from : « The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War » by Annie Heloise Abel
Synonyms for secessionist
- agitator
- anarchist
- antagonist
- apostate
- avant-garde
- demagogue
- deserter
- disectarian
- dissenter
- experientialist
- experimenter
- extremist
- fanatic
- firebrand
- freethinker
- frondeur
- guerrilla
- heretic
- iconoclast
- independent
- individualist
- innovator
- insurgent
- insurrectionary
- insurrectionist
- left-winger
- leftist
- malcontent
- militant
- mutineer
- nihilist
- nonconformist
- objector
- opponent
- overthrower
- pacifist
- progressive
- rebel
- recreant
- reformer
- renegade
- resistance
- revolter
- revolutionary
- revolutionist
- rioter
- schismatic
- secessionist
- seditionist
- separatist
- subversive
- subverter
- traitor
- turncoat
- ultraist
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