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sep·a·ra·tist
/ ˈsep(ə)rətist/
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n.
a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender:
religious separatists.
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adj.
of or relating to such separation or those supporting it:
a separatist rebellion.
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Quebec separatists say they can save money, get more services.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 10/28/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...Ottawa. Because the separatists want to retain Canadian...this is not a real separatist campaign at all, it...is so bad that the separatists must break it up...are a people,'' separatist leaders have said during...our money.'' The separatists also complain about...
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Chechen separatist attacks kill 57
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 6/23/2004; 700+ words
; ...Suspected Chechen separatists rampaged through...Chechnya's separatist violence. In...operation, the separatists seized the Interior...building which the separatists held for several...evidence that separatist warlord Shamil...
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Kashmiri Separatists Dispense Quake Aid
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...villages on Saturday, separatists had started up what...In some ways the separatist groups have won round...aloof and lets the separatists take initiatives...the strong showing by separatist groups in the aftermath...political analyst. The separatists are showing that they...
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Separatist leader feels family pressure In Quebec, Bouchard ponders future
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/18/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...reporters after separatists lost the Oct...Quebecois, the separatist party that forms...that a reenergized separatist movement will either...confederation. The separatists are hoping Bouchard...straight into the separatist fray. In early...poll showed the separatists headed for a ...
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Curfew is imposed in Kashmir Valley before separatist protest
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/25/2008; ; 550 words
; ...the region in 1989. Separatist leaders plan to address...day strike called by separatists began Saturday. "As...lives of some of the separatist leaders. The statement...give further details. Separatists said that the rally...
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KASHMIR SEPARATISTS BAFFLED BY HIGH VOTER TURNOUT
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 12/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...elections? Some senior separatist leaders are beginning...Ignoring the separatists' poll-boycott...saving grace for the separatists, as compared to...arrested every separatist leader. They converted...said: "The separatists shall definitely...remains that the separatist leaders are ...
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Thai government ready to negotiate with separatists leader, official
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 5/24/2004; 700+ words
; ...Thai government ready to negotiate with separatists leader, official BANGKOK, May 24...government was ready to negotiate with separatists movement leader to solve the problem...organization Bersatu which incorporates several separatists movements. Pisarn said the meeting...
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Kashmiri separatists dispense aid quake, a move that could boost their cause
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 10/10/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...villages on Saturday, separatists had started up what...In some ways the separatist groups have won round...aloof and lets the separatists take initiatives...political analyst. The separatists are showing that they...Dec. 26 tsunami, separatist rebels in the Indonesian...
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"Good Separatists" and "Bad Separatists"
Newspaper article from: Washington Informer; 11/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...01-1995 "Good Separatists" and "Bad Separatists". While I remain...charges that he is a "separatist." Critics of his...Well, he IS a separatist teacher! Every...however, with Black separatists in America, those...
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+(New+Delhi%2c+India) "United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India)")
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Separatist leaders in Kashmir still under house arrest.
Newspaper article from: United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India); 5/3/2009; 700+ words
; ...Srinagar, May. 3 -- About a dozen separatist leaders, including chairmen of both...rallies, official sources said. The separatist organisations have appealed to people...said here today. About a dozen other separatist leaders, including Dr Ghulam Nabi Hubbi...
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Separatists, Puritan
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
SEPARATISTS, PURITAN SEPARATISTS, PURITAN. The Separatists, or Independents, were radical...Robert Browne gathered the first Separatist church at Norfolk, England, in 1581; later Separatists were dubbed "Brownists," but the...
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Separatists
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Separatists, name applied to those...church. The Pilgrims were Separatists, but most of the other...to merge, but extreme Separatists, such as Roger Williams...ministers on essentially Separatist principles.
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separatist
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
separatist n. a person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender: religious separatists. adj. of or relating to such separation or those supporting it: a separatist rebellion.
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separatists
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
separatists in religion, those bodies of Christians...In the 16th cent. a group of early separatists were known as Brownists after their...into use in the 17th cent. Among other separatist groups were the Pilgrims, the Quakers...
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Separatist Society of Zoar
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Separatist Society of Zoar, see Zoar .
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