Antonyms for confederacy
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh n-fed-er-uh-see, -fed-ruh-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈfɛd ər ə si, -ˈfɛd rə si |
Definition of confederacy
Origin :- late 14c., from Anglo-French confederacie (Old French confederacie), from stem of Latin confoederatio, from confoederare (see confederate). Earliest in reference to leagues of classical Greek states (Aetolian, Achaean, etc.), later of the Netherlands. The word was used of the United States of America under (and in) the Articles of Confederation (1777-1788). In reference to the breakaway Confederate States of America (1861-1865) from 1861.
- Confederacy now usually implies a looser or more temporary association than confederation, which is applied to a union of states organized on an intentionally permanent basis. [OED]
- noun coalition
- Our Confederacy, fellow-citizens, can only be preserved by the same forbearance.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- Moreover, this was the heart of the Confederacy and other unknown forces might be gathering.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- I wouldn't have got off my horse and leaned over that box to save the Confederacy.
- Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
- In all the Confederacy no houseful went to sleep that night in sweeter content.
- Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
- It had been given only four times in the long history of the Confederacy.
- Extract from : « Join Our Gang? » by Sterling E. Lanier
- The advantages derived from this union attracted other towns to the confederacy.
- Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
- To effect this, I see no way so practicable as dissolving the confederacy.
- Extract from : « Patrick Henry » by Moses Coit Tyler
- When he was able to travel, he had had enough of war and the Confederacy.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Just now the things most interesting to her were the affairs of the Confederacy.
- Extract from : « The Bondwoman » by Marah Ellis Ryan
- On the 3d, he was in Richmond, writing, "There is no longer a Confederacy."
- Extract from : « Charles Carleton Coffin » by William Elliot Griffis, D. D.
Synonyms for confederacy
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