separationist

[ sep-uh-rey-shuh-nist ]
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noun, adjective

Origin of separationist

1
First recorded in 1880–85; separation + -ist

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How to use separationist in a sentence

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

    Romance | Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • Mrs. Mac, good separationist though she was, as became the wife of her husband, had the word "home" forever on her lips.

    Romance | Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • And as you are a separationist, small blame to you, and I am an Irishman, we shan't cry our eyes out over it.

    Romance | Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • It had a glamour for him which, he supposed, a separationist (as I had the reputation of being) could not fail to see.

    Romance | Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
  • And he reflected that Decoud's separationist plan had not gone to the bottom with the lost silver.