Definition of "seceding" [seceding]

• Present participle of secede. (verb)

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• "Texas would do us all a favor by seceding from the union."
• "The momentum toward what amounts to a whole subculture seceding from the union (in order to await "The End") is irrevocably prying loose a chunk of the American population from both sanity and their fellow citizens."
• "Lord Acton did so, and everyone who thinks there is something wrong with a slave-holding territory seceding from a larger country has no place praising the American War of Independence!"