0 relating to or supporting secession (= the act of becoming independent and no longer part of a country, area, organization, etc.): --
secessionist movements
1 someone who supports the idea of independence and no longer being part of a country, area, organization, etc.: --
He was an ardent secessionist before the American Civil War.
This unilateral secessionist act is an impermissible precedent in international relations.
Experience has shown repeatedly that secessionist movements are a powerful development internationally, particularly in island communities.
How many of the secessionists are likely to be charged, and are at present in custody?
This offer, if accepted, would enable the amount of relief for the secessionist area to be greatly increased.
This split is significant because it demonstrated the importance of primordial ties in determining one's loyalty or adherence to the secessionist or autonomist brand of nationalism.
A flexible and non-repressive regime, that has pluralist characteristics, may be able to thwart secessionist pressures precisely because it gives the culturally and educationally differentiated a share in political institutions.
In short the political regime within which national minorities operate, rather than their material or cultural grievances, may best explain their predispositions to be secessionists, federalists, or consociationalists.
These southern cities caused secessionists to worry that they were going the way of northern cities with their mob rule, contentious 'democratic' politics and misplaced loyalties.
