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English Dictionary: Separatist by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
separatist
adj
  1. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"
    Synonym(s): breakaway, fissiparous, separatist
n
  1. an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)
    Synonym(s): separatist, separationist
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Separatist \Sep`a*ra*tist\, n. [Cf. F. s[82]paratiste.]
      One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who
      withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder
      from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a
      schismatic; a sectary.
  
               Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting
               of separatist .                                       --Macaulay.
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