Secession : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Secession	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Secession
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
secession n an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s Synonym(s): secession, sezession the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War formal separation from an alliance or federation Synonym(s): secession, withdrawal
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Secession \Seces"sion\, n. [L. secessio: cf. F. s[82]cession. See {Secede}.] 1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal. 2. (U.S. Hist.) The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. {Secession* Church} (in Scotland). See {Seceder}.