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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Anglo-French confederacie (Old French confederacie ), from stem of Latin confoederatio , from confoederare (see confederate ). Earliest in reference to leagues of classical Greek states (Aetolian, Achaean, etc.), later of the Netherlands. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Confederacy \Con*fed"er*a*cy\, n. (Amer. Hist.) With the, the Confederate States of America.
Wikipedia
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The Confederacy was a society within the British Conservative Party that enthusiastically promoted Joseph Chamberlain 's campaign for Tariff Reform . A founder of the society, Henry Page Croft , later wrote that "It was started by three or four of us who ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A crucial hint of how wide the confederacy of life might spread comes from bacteria themselves. ▪ At the same time, there were elements within the confederacy which became increasingly associated with the Roman Empire. ▪ It is ...
Usage examples of confederacy.
Senator Lamar told me that he thought Walthall the ablest military genius of the Confederacy, with the exception of Lee, and, I think, of Stonewall Jackson.
Indian terms taken directly into English by the first colonists come from the two eastern families: the Iroquois confederacy, whose members included the Mohawk, Cherokee, Oneida, Seneca, Delaware and Huron tribes, and the even larger Algonquian group, which included Algonquin, Arapaho, Cree, Delaware, Illinois, Kickapoo, Narragansett, Ojibwa, Penobscot, Pequot and Sac and Fox, among many others.
In Etruria, in Greece, and in Gaul, it was the first care of the senate to dissolve those dangerous confederacies, which taught mankind that, as the Roman arms prevailed by division, they might be resisted by union.
The scarcity of mechanics of all kinds in the Confederacy, and the urgent needs of the people for many things which the war and the blockade prevented their obtaining, led to continual inducements being offered to the artizans among us to go outside and work at their trade.
AMERICAN INSURRECTION Like Ross Barnett, Citizens Council chief William Simmons was a child of the Confederacy.
Most of their ilk had to make do with, at best, castoffs and obsolete units of the Confederacy Navy.
As very considerable numbers of the working classes in Lancashire and Yorkshire had been taught in Sunday-schools, and the Sabbath day was much regarded in that part of the country, the collection of such a vast concourse of persons from great distances, on a day so sacred, created prejudices against the chartist confederacies even in their own strongholds, which, irrespective of every other difficulty, ensured their defeat.
Such a procedure seems to have first been developed and practised within the territory of the Hittite confederacy.
I tell you that as sure as there is a God who reigns and judges in Israel, before the Spring breezes stir the tops of these blasted old pines their Confederacy and all the lousy graybacks who support it will be so deep in hell that nothing but a search warrant from the throne of God Almighty can ever find it again.
The native name of the confederacy is Hasinai, corrupted by the French into Asinais and Cenis.
Bengal government, appeased the resentment felt by the Nizam, and induced him to withdraw from the Confederacy.
India--even to the ruler of Afghanistan--inviting them to join the confederacy of the Mahrattis, the Nizam, and himself, to drive the English out of India altogether.
They were men of stature and fine countenance, proud of the titular primacy that belonged to them because it was the Onondaga, Hiawatha, who had formed the great confederacy more than four hundred years before our day, or just about the time Columbus was landing on the shores of the New World.
I was very young, my mother put me to bed with these stories, told in the harsh, old-fashioned French patois of her aunts, a sound that I associated with the stern-voiced chants of the Onondagan storytellers who used similar cautionary tales when they sought to persuade recalcitrant rebels to bend their will to that of the Confederacy.
Bossman Pier Balquirth, Ambassador to Wundlich from the Ontarian Confederacy.