Synonyms for confederacy
kənˈfɛd ər ə si, -ˈfɛd rə sicon·fed·er·a·cy

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1. confederacy

   Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128. The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to be styled a federal union.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, coalition, compact, confederation, federation, fusion, league, partnership, union

   Antonyms:
   antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, enmity, hostility, schism, secession, separation, war

   Preposition:
   Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between, or among nations.

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1. confederacy

   Synonyms:
   alliance, treaty, league, union, association

   Antonyms:
   disruption, secession, disunion

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1. Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixielandnoun

   the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

   Synonyms:
   conspiracy, federation, confederation, southward, due south

2. confederation, confederacy, federationnoun

   a union of political organizations

   Synonyms:
   alliance, conspiracy, federation, confederation

3. conspiracy, confederacynoun

   a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

   Synonyms:
   cabal, conspiracy, federation, confederation

4. conspiracy, confederacynoun

   a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

   Synonyms:
   cabal, conspiracy, federation, confederation

Matched Categories

1. • Agreement
   • Geographical Area
   • Set
   • Union

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1. confederacynoun

   Synonyms:
   confederation (especially of independent states), federation, league, coalition, alliance, union, federal compact

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1. List of paraphrases for "confederacy":

   confederation, confederate

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How to use confederacy in a sentence?

1. Jared Huffman:

   With the consideration of the Interior Appropriations bill, this House has the opportunity to add its voice by ending the promotion of the cruel, racist legacy of the Confederacy.

2. Jefferson Davis:

   The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

3. Vernon Burton:

   Black Americans in the former Confederacy lived in a terroristic society at least until 1965, when the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, but then you also had the Redneck Shop, which glorified hate and showed what Black Americans had to deal with in rural areas in the'90s and on.

4. Sonya Patrick:

   The wealth of the confederacy was built on the backs of human slavery.

5. Mack Williams:

   But it's for the Confederacy, which in my opinion, is a horrible thing, i don't think a work of art needs to be judged on its intent. ... I also don't think we should erase that and pretend it didn't happen or pretend it wasn't there.