Confederacy definition

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People, groups, nations, or states united for some common purpose.
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A league or alliance formed by such a union; federation or confederation.
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Confederacy refers to the group of eleven southern states within the U.S. that seceded from the United States from 1861 to 1865.

An example of confederacy is the Confederate States of America which included eleven states including Texas, Alabama and Georgia.

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The definition of a confederacy is a union between people, states, nations or other groups for a common purpose.

An example of a confederacy is a number of households within a neighborhood forming a neighborhood watch program.

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A group of people who have united for unlawful practices; a conspiracy.
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A union of persons, parties, or states; a league.
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The persons, parties, or states joined in such a union.
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The Confederate States of America.
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(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.
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People united for an unlawful purpose; conspiracy.
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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.
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Noun

Singular:
confederacy
Plural:
confederacies

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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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