Confederacy
noun
A group of people, countries, organizations, etc., that unite for a common purpose.
The small nations formed a confederacy to defend themselves against the invading army.
Often appears as...
- form a confederacy
- join a confederacy
noun
The group of 11 Southern states of the United States during the American Civil War.
The Confederacy lost the Civil War in 1865.
Often appears as...
- the confederacy lost
- the confederacy fought
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Academic, Historical
noun
A union of political units for common action in relation to other units.
The confederacy of city-states united to fight against the invading army.
Often appears as...
- confederacy of city-states
- confederacy of nations
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Political, Academic
noun
A league or compact for mutual support or common action.
The pirates formed a confederacy to take over the seas and share the loot.
Often appears as...
- form a confederacy
- confederacy of pirates
noun
A group of people, countries, organizations, etc., that unite for a common purpose.
The small nations formed a confederacy to defend themselves against the invading army.
Often appears as...
- form a confederacy
- join a confederacy
noun
The group of 11 Southern states of the United States during the American Civil War.
The Confederacy lost the Civil War in 1865.
Often appears as...
- the confederacy lost
- the confederacy fought
Usage tips
Academic, Historical
noun
A union of political units for common action in relation to other units.
The confederacy of city-states united to fight against the invading army.
Often appears as...
- confederacy of city-states
- confederacy of nations
Usage tips
Political, Academic
noun
A league or compact for mutual support or common action.
The pirates formed a confederacy to take over the seas and share the loot.
Often appears as...
- form a confederacy
- confederacy of pirates
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Common Purpose
Confederacy usually implies a temporary alliance for a shared goal.
The companies formed a confederacy to lobby for the new trade law.
Pro Tip 2/2Broad Usage
The term can apply to any collective group, not just nations.
Several activist groups entered into a confederacy to amplify their message.
Pro Tip 1/2Common Purpose
Confederacy usually implies a temporary alliance for a shared goal.
The companies formed a confederacy to lobby for the new trade law.
Pro Tip 2/2Broad Usage
The term can apply to any collective group, not just nations.
Several activist groups entered into a confederacy to amplify their message.
Pro Tip 1/2Common Purpose
Confederacy usually implies a temporary alliance for a shared goal.
The companies formed a confederacy to lobby for the new trade law.
Pro Tip 2/2Broad Usage
The term can apply to any collective group, not just nations.
Several activist groups entered into a confederacy to amplify their message.
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Ugly History: The...
to root out heresy in the Spanish kingdoms— a confederacy of semi-independent kingdoms in the area that would become the modern country of Spain. Though the order came from the church, the monarchs had requested it. When the Inquisition began, the Spanish kingdoms were diverse both ethnically and religiously,
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Josie Underwood's Civil...
friendships was shattered and when the rebel army came through a family's magnificent home was burned to the ground but saddest of all she fell in love with a handsome and wealthy lawyer in Memphis and the story of their courtship is moving he joined the Confederacy while she remained a staunch
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George Ayittey: Cheetahs...
the confederacy principle, which is characterized by a great deal of devolution of authority, decentralization of power. Now, this is what I have described to you.
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Ugly History: The...
to root out heresy in the Spanish kingdoms— a confederacy of semi-independent kingdoms in the area that would become the modern country of Spain. Though the order came from the church, the monarchs had requested it. When the Inquisition began, the Spanish kingdoms were diverse both ethnically and religiously,
Video examples
Josie Underwood's Civil...
friendships was shattered and when the rebel army came through a family's magnificent home was burned to the ground but saddest of all she fell in love with a handsome and wealthy lawyer in Memphis and the story of their courtship is moving he joined the Confederacy while she remained a staunch
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George Ayittey: Cheetahs...
the confederacy principle, which is characterized by a great deal of devolution of authority, decentralization of power. Now, this is what I have described to you.
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Mike Lee
American Politician
I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.
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Andrew Jackson
American President
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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Corrine Brown
American Politician
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
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Mercy Otis Warren
American Playwright
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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Martin Van Buren
American President
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
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.
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John Brough
American Politician
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.
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Franklin Pierce
American President
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.
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Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
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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Jalal Talabani
Iraqi Politician
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
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Mike Lee
American Politician
I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.
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Andrew Jackson
American President
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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Corrine Brown
American Politician
Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
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Mercy Otis Warren
American Playwright
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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Martin Van Buren
American President
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
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.
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John Brough
American Politician
You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.
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Franklin Pierce
American President
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.
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Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
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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Jalal Talabani
Iraqi Politician
Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.
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