separatist
pronunciation
How to pronounce separatist in British English:
UK [ˈseprətɪst]
How to pronounce separatist in American English:
US [ˈsɛpərətɪst, ˈsɛprə-, ˈsɛpəˌre-]
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- Noun:
- an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)
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- Adjective:
- having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
Word Origin
- separatist
- c. 1600, from separate + -ist. First used in a denominational religious sense; of political separations from 1871.
Example
- 1. Yet separatist and even nationalist feelings were weak .
- 2. That fell apart when a separatist insurgency erupted in 1989 .
- 3. Thousands of basques marched in bilbao in support of allowing the registration of sortu , a new separatist party .
- 4. Yet the separatist chiefs preferred to see it as a brazen effort by the government to shift hindus into the muslim-dominated kashmir valley .
- 5. When eta was still active , basque voters never backed a single separatist group in such numbers .