secession
25 02 2008Nouns
1. (n.) secession, sezession;
- an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s;
2. (n.) secession;
- the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War;
3. (n.) secession, withdrawal;
- formal separation from an alliance or federation;
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