Definition of "secessionists" [secessionists]

• Plural form of secessionist. (noun)

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• "Are you acquainted with the state of feeling among what we call secessionists in Virginia, at present, toward the Government of the United States?"
• "In such an event, do you not think that that class of people whom I call secessionists would join the common enemy?"
• "The Associated Press says NAACP members called the secessionists the equivalent of 19th-century terrorists."