Crossword clues for separatist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Separatist \Sep`a*ra*tist\, n. [Cf. F. s['e]paratiste.] One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary.
Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting
of separatist .
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from separate + -ist. First used in a denominational religious sense; of political separations from 1871.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Advocating ecclesiastical separation. 2 Advocating or seeking the separation of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories. n. 1 Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatics. 2 A person who advocates or seeks the splitting of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.
WordNet
adj. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" [syn: breakaway, fissiparous]
n. an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) [syn: separationist]
Wikipedia
A separatist is an advocate of a state of separation for a group of people from a larger group.
Separatist or separatists may also refer to:
- Separatist Crisis (Star Wars), a plot element of the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and sequels
- Separatist feminism, a form of radical feminism that focuses exclusively on women and girls
- Separatist Puritan, English Puritan who advocated complete separation from the Church of England
- Separatists of Zoar, German religious dissenters who founded the city of Zoar, Ohio, US
- Advocates of separation of church and state
Usage examples of "separatist".
Separatists from the Church of England who, in the violence of their alienation and the bitterness of their sufferings, did not refrain from sour and acrid censoriousness toward the men who were nearest them in religious conviction and pursuing like ends by another course.
Puritan Separatists who believed in no overarching structure for the church beyond their own, naturally fissive local gatherings.
With his homeworld threatened and the purse worlds of Deko and Koru Neimoidia devastated, Viceroy Gunray would have been wiser to retreat to the Outer Rim, as other members of the Separatist Council were thought to be doing.
The Council assigned something like a third of the resources available for science to biological work, and it does not seem to have occurred to these rulers of the world, preoccupied as they were with the suppression, the excessive suppression, the obliteration even, of deleterious and antiquated separatist doctrines and the refashioning of economic life, that this huge growth of biological enquiry would result in anything more than the extinction of plant and animal diseases, and improvements and economies in cultivation.
Separatists have attacked a Republic garrison base on Tythe, and occupied the planet.
Zionists additionally saw revolutionary Marxism as an assimilationist enemy which persuaded them to ally against it with their fellow separatists of the anti-Semitic right-wing nationalist movements in Eastern Europe.
The La Raza dinosaurs, along with other separatists and ethnic chauvinists, might lumber on in theory, but in fact would gradually die off as their habitat became depleted of new clients and their landscape altered through the effects of intermarriage and the assimilative youth culture.
About 1602 his neighbours began to assemble for worship at his home, the Scrooby manor house, and in 1606 he joined them in organizing the Separatist church of Scrooby.
The accompanying note in the Geneva Bible, which the Scrooby Separatists would have read, makes it quite clear.
The ferocious intolerances of the pre-liberal world have been left behind - it is inconceivable now that a Henry Barrow would be executed, or a Henry Garnet, or that the Scrooby Separatists would have been forced to leave home and country - and perhaps as a result of that change, perhaps as a symptom, religion, or at least the conventional religion of ordinary people, has been drained of its passion.
Separatists and Albertan ultra-rightists united only in their fanatical conviction that the U.
The German settlers were mostly Lutherans, but there were other sectsMennonites, Dunkers and Sabbatarians, Moravians, Separatists.
Kapustin had agreed that the action of the Separatist Movement in Khabarovsk was unexpected, even suspicious.
The official story of the explosions in Khabarovsk was to lay the blame where it had been claimed by telephone - the Separatists.
They were dying, and prepared to die, for the same fiction that had killed the KGB team in Khabarovsk - the Separatists.