Confederacy Definition

kən-fĕdər-ə-sē
confederacies
noun
confederacies
People, groups, nations, or states united for some common purpose.
Webster's New World
A league or alliance formed by such a union; federation or confederation.
Webster's New World
The Confederate States of America.
American Heritage
People united for an unlawful purpose; conspiracy.
Webster's New World

An alliance.

Wiktionary
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pronoun

(historical) The informal name for the Confederate States of America, the collection of American states that seceded from the United States in 1861, and fought against the Union in the American Civil War.

Wiktionary
idiom
the Confederacy
  • the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Confederacy

Noun

Singular:
confederacy
Plural:
confederacies

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Confederacy

  • the Confederacy

Origin of Confederacy

  • Middle English confederacie from Anglo-Norman from Late Latin cōnfoederātiō cōnfoederātiōn- agreement from cōnfoederātus past participle of confoederāre to unite confederate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Anglo-Norman confederacie, from Latin confoederatio.

    From Wiktionary

Confederacy Sentence Examples

  • Kenner as special commissioner to the courts of England and France to obtain recognition of the Confederacy on condition of the abolition of slavery.

  • At this time the Hatti empire or confederacy probably included, on the west, both Phrygia and Lydia.

  • The branch of the Franks - who were a confederacy, not a people - which gradually overspread Gallia Belgica, bore the name of the Salian Franks..

  • Several causes contributed to the formation of the first Confederacy of Delos.

  • The Delian confederacy lay completely under Athenian control, and the points of strategic importance were largely held by cleruchies (q.v.; see also Pericles) and garrisons.

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