confederacy

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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noun the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
noun a union of political organizations
noun a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

From Middle English confederacie, from Anglo-Norman confederacie, from Latin cōnfoederātiō. Doublet of confederation.

The Confederacy cut in two. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
It was the end of the war and of the Confederacy. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams
The fall of the Confederacy apparently hardened his determination to kill Lincoln. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission

Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland

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