What does confederacy mean?
Definitions for confederacy
kənˈfɛd ər ə si, -ˈfɛd rə sicon·fed·er·a·cy
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Princeton's WordNet
Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixielandnoun
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
confederation, confederacy, federationnoun
a union of political organizations
conspiracy, confederacynoun
a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
conspiracy, confederacynoun
a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
Wiktionary
confederacynoun
an alliance
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 Dictionary
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.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Confederacynoun
a league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance
Confederacynoun
the persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation
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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of confederacy in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of confederacy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of confederacy in a Sentence
If the Daughters of the Confederacy, if they had a lot or somewhere they want to take those, that would be great -- or maybe Fort Fisher.
Nothing represents African-Americans in that flag and in that Confederacy but the fact that the states didn't hide the fact that from an economic development standpoint they were going to keep on owning people of color to do the work to make the money.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
This is set up by Georgia law as a museum for the Confederacy.
That Confederacy period is still part of that history. Criticize it and indeed tell the truth about it, that its about slavery and not states rights and so on.
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- حلفArabic
- confederacióCatalan, Valencian
- KonföderationGerman
- confederaciónSpanish
- confédérationFrench
- कंफेडेरसीHindi
- konfederasiIndonesian
- confederazioneItalian
- 同盟Japanese
- nominisLatin
- confederaçãoPortuguese
- confederațieRomanian
- کنفیڈریشنUrdu
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