Definition of "partitionist" []

• One who advocates partition of a country. (noun)

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• "But if you had asked Gerry Adams or Martin McGuinness in 1985 whether they would have been prepared to sit down with unionists in what Republicans would have called a partitionist assembly, they would have looked at you in disbelief."
• "International Crisis Group - Can Cyprus buck the partitionist trend?"
• "The country is a cobbling together of regional, religious, and ethnic nationalisms, and its founding, in 1947, resulted in Pakistan's becoming, along with Israel, one of the two "faith-based" states to emerge from the partitionist policy of a dying British colonialism."