disunionist
Americannoun
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a person who advocates or causes disunion.
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U.S. History. a secessionist during the period of the Civil War.
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Calhoun always denied he was a disunionist and did not live long enough to witness the guns of South Carolina firing on United States forces in Charleston Harbor.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
Sir, you will pardon me," spoke the arch anti-slavery disunionist, "for the reference.
From William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist by Archibald Henry Grimké
He was active in many ways as an abolitionist, but was not a disunionist.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
If he does entertain and has expressed such sentiments, he is not to be held up as peculiarly a disunionist.
From American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896) by Alexander Johnston
Brown, John, Kentucky delegate in Congress, allied to Wilkinson; he and Madison have intercourse with Gardoqui; letter advising independence for Kentucky; disunionist, not corrupt; misrepresents action of Continental Congress.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt
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