secession

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secession Definition

• (n) an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
• (n) the withdrawal of eleven Southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
• (n) formal separation from an alliance or federation

secession Synonyms

• secession
• sezession
• withdrawal