secession

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
noun the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
noun formal separation from an alliance or federation

From Latin sēcessiō (“a withdrawing”).

172 Carolina, South, secession of, i. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams
$ 60 Inside: a Chronicle of Secession. — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend
She hates secession, and she hates Secessionists. — A Little Union Scout, Joel Chandler Harris

sezession

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