separatist
About 1.02 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatic movements.
- noun A person who advocates or seeks the splitting of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.
On rare occasions French-Canadian separatists have resorted to violence.
- adjective Advocating ecclesiastical separation.
- adjective Advocating or seeking the separation of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.
He is a Scottish nationalist and has a large collection of separatist literature.
Similar words
independent breakaway separatism splittist secessionist secession division divisive dividing split
Often followed by
movement movements tendencies and groups group churches forces or
Word family
Separatist Separatists separatistic separatists
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