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How to pronounce secession in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sezession
Type of school, artistic movement, art movement
Type Words
Synonyms withdrawal
Type of separation
Has types breaking away, breakaway
Derivation secede
Type Words

Examples of secession

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Most of the convention delegates owned slaves, but only a few favored secession.
From the stltoday.com
In a couple of weeks, he'll know whether his dreams of secession will come true.
From the washingtonpost.com
She and her husband are also known associates of an Alaskan pro-secession group.
From the kentucky.com
The law was written in 1867, when churches had split over slavery and secession.
From the inrich.com
I understand, except that we wish that the South would threaten secession again.
From the economist.com
And where would this leave the new Less Great Britain following Scots secession?
From the guardian.co.uk
Secession of the south, leaving them behind, could ignite troubles in each area.
From the kristof.blogs.nytimes.com
It also provided for the possibility of secession from the Union after 10 years.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The Southern Democrats represented the party of planters, slavery and secession.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • An Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
  • The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
  • Formal separation from an alliance or federation
  • (secessionist) an advocate of secessionism
  • Secession (Sezession) refers to a number of modernist artist groups that separated from the support of official academic art and its administrations in the late 19th and early 20th century.
  • Secession was a Scottish synth pop band that existed between 1983 and 1987. The original incarnation comprised Peter Thomson (Guitar, Keyboards, Synth & Vocals), Jack Ross (Guitar, Synthesizer & Vocals), Jim Ross (Bass) & Carole Branston (Keyboards & Vocals). ...
  • The act of seceding
  • (secessionist) believing that part of a country should declare its independence; separatist
  • Of conidia, separation of conidia from the conidiogenous locus or neighbouring conidium by schizolysis or rhexolysis (Nag Raj, 1993).