Definition of confederacy
confederacies
1 : a league or compact for mutual support or common action : alliance
2 : a combination of persons for unlawful purposes : conspiracy
3 : the body formed by persons, states, or nations united by a league; specifically, capitalized : the 11 southern states seceding from the U.S. in 1860 and 1861
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Examples of confederacy in a Sentence
a confederacy of native tribes
the last state to join the Confederacy
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The most recent Congress boasted 138 members from the states that comprised the old Confederacy.
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The most recent Congress boasted 138 members from the states that comprised the old Confederacy.
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At the close of the Civil War, more than Southern independence and the bones of the dead lay amid the smoking ruins of the Confederacy.
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This phenomenon is the most pronounced within the former borders of the Confederacy.
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That help doesn’t come; Newton leads his group in declaring independence from both the Confederacy and the Union (the film’s title comes from the name of their new country).
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Chris Hunt/Special to the AJC BTW, with the Capitol closed today, so is the state’s largest collection of symbols honoring the Confederacy: statues and paintings housed there.
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His mother, Rosalind, was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
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14th Century
First Known Use of confederacy
14th century
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CONFEDERACY Defined for English Language Learners
confederacy
playDefinition of confederacy for English Language Learners
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: a group of people, countries, organizations, etc., that are joined together in some activity or effort
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the Confederacy : the group of 11 southern states that separated themselves from the U.S. during the American Civil War
CONFEDERACY Defined for Kids
confederacy
playDefinition of confederacy for Students
confederacies
1 : a league of persons, parties, or states
2 cap : the eleven southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860 and 1861 to form their own government
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