Lexic.us

Definition of Separatist

1. Noun. An advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union).

2. Adjective. Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude. "A breakaway faction"

Definition of Separatist

1. n. One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.

Definition of Separatist

1. Noun. Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatics. ¹

2. Noun. A person who advocates or seeks the splitting of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories. ¹

3. Adjective. Advocating ecclesiastical separation. ¹

4. Adjective. Advocating or seeking the separation of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Separatist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Separatist

separation separation anxiety separation anxiety disorder separation anxiety disorders separation energy separation of concerns separation of powers separation of retina separation of teeth separationist

separationists separations separations of powers separatism separatisms separatist (current term) separatistic separatists separative separator

separators separatory separatrices separatrix separatrixes separatum sepawn sepawns seperate seperately

Literary usage of Separatist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies in Religion and Theology: The Church: in Idea and in History by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1910)
"He agreed with the separatist, therefore, not in his doctrine of Scripture, which was much freer than the Anglican, so much as in the idea of religion vol. ..."

2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Says the separatist, if those who have the rule over you should command you any thing about church affairs, you ought not, in conscience, to obey them. ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... of the (Henry) Luttrell faction, circulated amongst the Anglo-Irish portion of the Duke's enemies, and the ultra Milesian or " separatist" party, ..."

4. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1907)
"Fallacy of the separatist Measure of Employment. § 4. Influence of Introduction of Machinery upon Regularity of Employment. § 5, Effects of "• Unorganised" ..."

5. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"Thus another proof was afforded of the separatist tendency in the Salem church. It was after his return, but before his appointment as Skelton's successor, ..."

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