Definitions for CONFEDERACY
kənˈfɛd ər ə si, -ˈfɛd rə sicon·fed·er·a·cy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixielandnoun

   the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

2. confederation, confederacy, federationnoun

   a union of political organizations

3. conspiracy, confederacynoun

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

4. conspiracy, confederacynoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. confederacynoun

   an alliance

2. Confederacynoun

   the informal name for the Confederate States of America, the collection of American states that seceded from the United States in 1861, and fought against the Union in the American Civil War.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Confederacynoun

   A league; a contract by which several persons or bodies of men engage to support each other; union; engagement; federal compact.

   Etymology: confederation, Fr. fœdus, Latin.

   What confederacy have you with the traitors? William Shakespeare, K. Lear.

   Judas sent them to Rome, to make a league of amity and confederacy with them. 1 Mac. viii. 17.

   Virgil has a whole confederacy against him, and I must endeavour to defend him. John Dryden, Virg. Æn. Dedication.

   The friendships of the world are oft
   Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. Addison.

   An avaricious man in office is in confederacy with the whole clan of his district, or dependance; which, in modern terms of art, is called to live and let live. Jonathan Swift, Examiner, №. 27.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. confederacy

   A confederacy is a union or alliance of individuals, groups, states, or nations united for a common cause or for mutual assistance or support. This could be for political, military, or economic purposes. It often involves a shared agreement or treaty and may have a governing body that oversees common matters without negating the individual sovereignty of the members.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 4 votes

1. Confederacynoun

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

2. Confederacynoun

   the persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation

3. Confederacynoun

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

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How to pronounce CONFEDERACY?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONFEDERACY in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONFEDERACY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of CONFEDERACY in a Sentence

1. Kenneth Nail:

   Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statues. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south.

2. William Bumpers:

   He told the school board they had to integrate. It was the right thing to do, and he convinced the school board to vote for integration, charleston was the first school district in the whole confederacy to fully integrate. He was very proud of that.

3. Jonathan Swift:

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

4. Vernon Burton:

   Black Americans in the former Confederacy lived in a terroristic society at least until 1965, when the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, but then you also had the Redneck Shop, which glorified hate and showed what Black Americans had to deal with in rural areas in the'90s and on.

5. Jared Huffman:

   With the consideration of the Interior Appropriations bill, this House has the opportunity to add its voice by ending the promotion of the cruel, racist legacy of the Confederacy.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CONFEDERACY
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Confederacy
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CONFEDERACY
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CONFEDERACY