secession

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state

   The southern states' secession from the Union led to civil war.

secession (Modern English, 'formal withdrawal from a body'); from Latin _secessio_ ('a withdrawal, going apart'), from _secedere_ ('to go apart'), from _se-_ ('apart') plus _cedere_ ('to go').

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