separationist

[ sep-uh-rey-shuh-nist ]

noun

1. separatist.

Word History and Origins

Origin of separationist¹

First recorded in 1880–85; separation + -ist

Example Sentences

Living in the centre of Separationist discontent with the Macdonalds, I knew it was not true.

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Mrs. Mac, good Separationist though she was, as became the wife of her husband, had the word "home" forever on her lips.

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And as you are a Separationist, small blame to you, and I am an Irishman, we shan't cry our eyes out over it.

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It had a glamour for him which, he supposed, a Separationist (as I had the reputation of being) could not fail to see.

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And he reflected that Decoud's separationist plan had not gone to the bottom with the lost silver.

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