Confederacy
[kən'fed(ə)rəsɪ] or [kən'fɛdərəsi]
Definition
(noun.) the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.
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Definition
(n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
(n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
(n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Confederation (especially of independent states), federation, league, coalition, alliance, union, federal compact.
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Examples
- But their enterprise was delayed by the absence of more than one main limb of the confederacy. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Every energy, therefore, was put forth by the Confederacy to protect and maintain their capital. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If Britain were driven into war with one confederacy, it would assure the supremacy of the other confederacy, whether they joined in the war or not. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This would cut the Confederacy in two again, as our gaining possession of the Mississippi River had done before. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Lee, with the capital of the Confederacy, was the main end to which all were working. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Wilson's raid resulted in the capture of the fugitive president of the defunct confederacy before he got out of the country. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- When it was evacuated (as we shall see further on), the Confederacy at once began to crumble and fade away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Some of his generals have said so in their writings since the downfall of the Confederacy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The fate of the Confederacy was sealed when Vicksburg fell. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This was the last effort on the part of the Confederacy to raise the siege of Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He had made his little country into the leading state in a great Gr?co-Macedonian confederacy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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