secession

/si-sesh-uhn/US // sɪˈsɛʃ ən //UK // (sɪˈsɛʃən) //

分离,分离主义,分裂,分离国

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an act or instance of seceding.
- : U.S. History. the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860–61, which brought on the Civil War.
- : Fine Arts. a style of art in Germany and Austria concurrent with and related to Art Nouveau.

nounwithdrawal

Synonyms

The chairman of the Texas GOP seriously suggested secession when the last, desperate legal challenges to the election failed.
Channeling Douglas’s condemnation of secession, McConnell told listeners that “public doubt alone” could not “justify a radical break when that doubt was incited without evidence.”
The closest parallel is probably the Southern “Fire-Eaters” who were rabid advocates of enslavement and secession before the Civil War.
Afterward, Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West declared that “law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the Constitution” — a seeming endorsement of secession.
America is polarized with a political culture growing more toxic by the day, but the realities of secession would be too much to bear.
In the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Plains, and Far West, secession sympathizers top out at 22 percent of the population.
But very few of us have imagined that they could fuel a generalized positive view of secession.
The larger the pro-secession minority becomes, the more the majority opposed to secession will believe that Hobbes was right.
According to Reuters, current Democrat support for secession is hovering around 20 percent.
And here in America, the spirit of secession is gaining strength too.

/si-sesh-uhn/US // sɪˈsɛʃ ən //UK // (sɪˈsɛʃən) //

分离,分离主义,分裂,分离国

n.名词 noun

1
- : an act or instance of seceding.
- : U.S. History. the withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860–61, which brought on the Civil War.
- : Fine Arts. a style of art in Germany and Austria concurrent with and related to Art Nouveau.

nounwithdrawal

Synonyms

The chairman of the Texas GOP seriously suggested secession when the last, desperate legal challenges to the election failed.
Channeling Douglas’s condemnation of secession, McConnell told listeners that “public doubt alone” could not “justify a radical break when that doubt was incited without evidence.”
The closest parallel is probably the Southern “Fire-Eaters” who were rabid advocates of enslavement and secession before the Civil War.
Afterward, Texas Republican Party Chairman Allen West declared that “law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the Constitution” — a seeming endorsement of secession.
America is polarized with a political culture growing more toxic by the day, but the realities of secession would be too much to bear.
In the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Plains, and Far West, secession sympathizers top out at 22 percent of the population.
But very few of us have imagined that they could fuel a generalized positive view of secession.
The larger the pro-secession minority becomes, the more the majority opposed to secession will believe that Hobbes was right.
According to Reuters, current Democrat support for secession is hovering around 20 percent.
And here in America, the spirit of secession is gaining strength too.