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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
separationist

1831, from separation + -ist.\n

WordNet
separationist

n. an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) [syn: separatist]

Usage examples of "separationist".

Charlotte Perkins Oilman, whose novel Herland is one of the best and pithiest separationist Utopias ever penned.

State, the Separationist proclamation which he had tried before he left to read hurriedly to Don Jose, stretched out on his bed under the fixed gaze of his daughter.

I could tell you episodes of the Separationist revolution that would astonish you.

Madison was so strict a separationist, in fact, that he even opposed counting clergy as part of the first census.

Given its usefulness for those arguing in favor of a separationist Christology, there can be little question why.

Among the reasons for these alterations were the theological disputes of the second and third centuries, as scribes sometimes modified their texts in light of the adoptionistic, docetic, and separationist Christologies that were vying for attention in the period.

Now Wales was threatening to exit what was left of the United Kingdom, though its separationists were presently quarreling too violently among themselves to be able to draft a resolution to that effect.

Palun, she had been taught by several active Separationists, who used her weakness as an example of why the heavy-worlders should avoid contact with lightweights and the FSP.

Palun, she had been taught by several active Separationists, who used her weakness as an example of why the heavyworlders should avoid contact with lightweights and the FSP.

The Atcheson Topeka and Santa Fe laid five hundred miles of steel rails, and the gandy dancers unwittingly served as racial separationists.

Some would believe it, and some wouldn't, And so you ||ftave Separationists, Integrationists, the whole compli-leated mess that we have here.

Some would believe it, and some wouldn't, And so you have Separationists, Integrationists, the whole mess that we have here.

Some would believe it, and some wouldn’t, And so you ||ftave Separationists, Integrationists, the whole compli-leated mess that we have here.

In fact, the name Perkinite was taken from Charlotte Perkins Oilman, whose novel Herland is one of the best and pithiest separationist Utopias ever penned.