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secessionist
CIDE DICTIONARY
secessionist, n.
- One who upholds secession. [1913 Webster]
- One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
secessionist
abjuratory, apostate, backslider, bolter, breakaway, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, deserter, fifth columnist, mugwump, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, proselyte, quisling, recidivist, recreant, renegade, renegado, renegate, renunciative, renunciatory, repudiative, repudiatory, reversionist, revocatory, runagate, schismatic, seceder, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, turntailROGET THESAURUS
secessionist
Disobedience
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.For further exploring for "secessionist" in Webster Dictionary Online