Definitions for: Secession

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

Webster (1913) Definition: Se*ces"sion, n. [L. secessio: cf. F. s['e]cession.
See Secede.]
1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or
association with others, as in a religious or political
organization; withdrawal.

2. (U.S. Hist.) The withdrawal of a State from the national
Union.

Secession Church (in Scotland). See Seceder.

Synonyms: Sezession, withdrawal

See Also: art movement, artistic movement, breakaway, breaking away, separation

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