Word Finder - separatism

definition

A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).

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She wrote an essay expounding the tenets of Scottish separatism.

definition

The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.

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Apartheid was a government-enformed form of separatism in which people received unequal social benefits based on race.

After the execution of Greenwood, Barrow and the ex-Puritan Penry (a recent recruit to Separatism), in the spring of 1593, it seemed to some that Separatism was " in effect extinguished."

It worries that military action would create a power vacuum, destabilize the region and encourage separatism among Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin.

The second is related to indigenous terrorist movements engaging in terrorism to promote separatism or an extreme ideology " .

They too reject separatism and also any separate legislative assembly.

Moscow worries that separatism inside Russia and radical Islamic movements beyond their borders might threaten stability in Southern Russia.

The paper was sparked by Nairn's neo-Marxist speculations on national separatism in Britain published in the same year.

Turkey fears a Kurdish breakaway state in northern Iraq could trigger renewed armed Kurdish separatism on its own territory.

But neither Labor nor black separatism has the answers that can unite black and white workers.

Difficult boundaries I accept that the boundaries between legitimate expression of identity and cultural separatism can be hard to draw.

The slogan ' Europe of a Hundred Flags ' sounds appealing but hides the racial separatism assumed in Fascist decentralization.

The second is related to indigenous terrorist movements engaging in terrorism to promote separatism or an extreme ideology .

The worst thing that could possibly happen to Scotland is the separatism advocated by the hon.

The paper was sparked by Nairn 's neo-Marxist speculations on national separatism in Britain published in the same year.

Ethnic separatism and the idea that people are intrinsically different because of their culture are possible outcomes of a struggle for indigenous rights.

The story of the many attempts made in the interval by " forward " or advanced Puritans to secure vital religious fellowship within the queen's Church, and of the few cases in which these shaded off into practical Separatism, is still wrapped in some obscurity.

Separatism was now passing into Congregationalism, 2 both in sentiment and in language.

This comes out in the writings both of Robinson and of Henry Jacob, both of whom passed gradually from Puritanism to Separatism at a time when the silencing of some 300 Puritan clergy by the Canons of 1604, and the exercise of the royal supremacy under Archbishop Bancroft, brought these " brethren of the Second Separation " into closer relations with the earlier Separatists.

He found their religious life too formal, external and worldly; and they could not sanction his comparative indifference to doctrinal correctness and his incurable tendency to separatism in church life.

He held fast to the great idea of the catholicity of the English Church, to that conception of it which regards it as a branch of the whole Christian church, and emphasizes its historical continuity and identity from the time of the apostles, but here again his policy was at fault; for his despotic administration not only excited and exaggerated the tendencies to separatism and independentism which finally prevailed, but excluded large bodies of faithful churchmen from communion with their church and from their country.