noun
definition
A person who secedes or supports secession from a political union or an alliance or organisation.
adjective
definition
Seceding or supporting secession.
Examples of secessionist in a Sentence
After one month in office, Lincoln still had not decided on a policy of action against the secessionist states.
That position was that the SFRY should remain one single unified state and that the secessionist republics should not be recognized.
The secessionist element was voluntarily or perforce excluded.
Wonder at the grand secessionist and art nouveau architecture which betrays the Austro-Hungarian heyday of the port, Croatia's third largest city.
The Arab street too sees only a secessionist movement in the Kurds.
As a result, the IRA was unable to generate support for its secessionist campaign.
However, " the struggle against the ' Taiwan independence ' secessionist forces and their activities remains stark and complex, " he said.