Secede Definition

sĭ-sēd
seceded, secedes, seceding
verb
seceded, secedes, seceding
To withdraw formally from membership in, or association with, a group, organization, etc., esp. a political group.
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Origin of Secede

  • Latin sēcēdere to withdraw sē- apart s(w)e- in Indo-European roots cēdere to go ked- in Indo-European roots

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

  • From Latin secedere, from se- ("apart") + cedere (“to go").

    From Wiktionary

Secede Sentence Examples

  • He argued that a state had no legal right to secede, but denied that the federal government had any power forcibly to prevent it.

  • From the same usage is derived the shorter political term "cave" for any body of men who secede from their party on some special subject.

  • Two early commentators on the Constitution, St George Tucker in 1803 and William Rawle in 1825, declared that the sovereign states might secede at will.

  • The first to secede were the land powers of Greece proper, whose subordination Athens had endeavoured to guarantee by supporting the democratic parties in the various states.

  • South Carolina led the extreme radical element in the South and was the first state to secede.

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