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separatist Definition

sepa·ra·tist (sep′ə rə tist, -ə rāt′ist)

noun

  1. a person who withdraws or secedes, esp. a member of a group that has seceded from a larger group; dissenter
  2. a person who advocates political, religious, or racial separation

adjective

of separatists or separatism

separatist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • call: Radical Puritans separated themselves from the Church of England and were called Separatists.
  • pursue: NATO ally Turkey maintains a military presence in neighboring Iraq's northern Kurdish enclave to pursue separatists from its own Kurdish minority.
  • believe: The Separatists also believed that the government was too tolerant toward those who were guilty of adultery, drunkenness and breaching the Sabbath.
  • fight: Firstly, Turkey has had to fight a separatist terrorist movement for 15 years.
  • join: He joined the Separatists, a Puritan religious group who were highly critical of the Church of England.

Adjective modifier

  • Basque: The Spanish government blamed Basque separatists for what is being called the worst terrorist attack in its history.
  • Kurdish: The first is to end the civil war against Kurdish separatists.
  • Albanian: Later on, Albanian terrorists, too, and Albanian separatists all the way along.
  • armed: Pakistani security forces in Balochistan are fighting armed tribal separatists who say the province's natural wealth is being plundered.
  • religious: Racists do not believe in common humanity, neither do cultural or religious separatists.

Modifies a noun

  • rebel: Turkey argues MED TV is a mouthpiece of separatist rebels.
  • propaganda: Some of them have been threatened with prosecution for ' ' separatist propaganda, ' ' which carries a three-year prison term.
  • nationalism: Like the people of South Africa, it has to be realized that a separatist nationalism means catastrophe and therefore has to be abandoned.
  • tendency: Out of this separatist tendency came the Baptist church.
  • movement: Hilary Hillman I am a member of the Basque separatist movement called ETA.
  • violence: The Spanish parliament rejected the plan, which Mr Ibarretxe says is the only way to stop Basque separatist violence, earlier this year.

Noun used with modifier

  • ethno-nationalist: The study examined five terrorist group types: religious, New Age, ethno-nationalist separatist, revolutionary, and far-right extremists.