Synonyms:
secession, withdrawal
Meaning: formal separation from an alliance or federation
Synonyms:
Secession
Meaning: the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
Synonyms:
secession, sezession
Meaning: an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
Usage examples
All were in favor of secession.
Virginia, as has been heretofore stated, passed her ordinance of secession on the 17th of April.
Lee went so far as to deny the right of secession, while Jackson insisted that the South ought to try to get its rights inside the Union, and not outside.
Two other days elapsed, and Virginia passed her ordinance of secession, and two days thereafter the citizens of Baltimore resisted the passage of troops through that city on their way to make war upon the Southern States.