confederacy

[Con*fedĀ·er*a*cy]

The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

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A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.

Noun
a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

Noun
a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

Noun
a union of political organizations

Noun
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861


n.
A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.

n.
The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.

n.
A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.


Confederacy

Con*fed"er*a*cy , n.; pl. Confederacies . [From Confederate, a.] 1. A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure.
He hath heard of our confederacy.
Virginia promoted a confederacy.
2. The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic confederacy that ever existed.
Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.
3. (Law) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. Syn. -- League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation.

A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.

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Usage Examples

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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Other Usage Examples

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

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