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autonomist

n. An advocate of autonomy or autonomism

Usage examples of "autonomist".

An extreme autonomist and anticentralist, a strong Union Nationaliste of the Duplessis vintage, his credentials gave him some standing in the provincial Party, but they made him anathema to large portions of the rest of Canada.

Bosnia-Hercegovina additionally complicated Serbian-Croatian relations and led to a rift in the National Party in Dalmatia: in 1879 the Serbs in inland Dalmatia voted for the Autonomist candidate against the Croatian one.

Soon the Serbian Party was founded, which acted in coalition with the Autonomists and opposed the unification of Dalmatia and Croatia.

There was a short-lived experiment in 1985 with regional councils, but when three of the four of them were dominated by Kanak autonomists, the French government reduced their powers.

But an objection to this improvement came from the Macedonian Autonomists, represented by the notorious Macedonian Revolutionary Committee, which operated in both Yugoslavia and in Bulgaria.

IWW across the United States in the 1910s up to the European autonomists in the 1970s.

The cellar the autonomists occupied when they killed those two gendarmes belongs to one of my pieds noirs.

The various groups of Catalan autonomists who had approached the government had made this plain, though it was obvious before: this was not the first time England had been concerned with Catalonia nor with dividing her potential enemies.

Dr Ramis had just come back from Minorca, his native island, and he had brought several documents for Stephen, for he was his most important contact with the Catalan autonomists.

Railroads," he went on, "are wonderful things, no matter how the provincial autonomists squeal about 'em.

Railroads," he went on, "are wonderful things, no mater how the provincial autonomists squeal about 'em.