Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A separatist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who advocates or favors separation, in some special sense.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)
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Examples
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Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a 'separationist' view of race.
"Barns for Obama." Ann Althouse 2008
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Most alarming is Michele Obama's use of the terms 'separationist' and 'integrationist' when describing the views of black people.
"Barns for Obama." Ann Althouse 2008
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Taiwan independence is presented as "separationist" although Taiwan isn't and never was part of China....etablishing a local identity is labeled by the code-phrase "de-Sinization" although Taiwan culture retains all of its Chinese elements.
Fawning over Ma Michael Turton 2007
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Justice Ginsburg was more the strict separationist.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Romney's concern today has to be that, if the GOP nominates a second presidential candidate whose record on social issues is murky at best, more and more evangelicals will revert to their pre-Falwell separationist stance, declining to get involved in politics at all.
Michael Sean Winters: Falwell's Legacy: Why Evangelicals Oppose Romney Michael Sean Winters 2012
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Romney's concern today has to be that, if the GOP nominates a second presidential candidate whose record on social issues is murky at best, more and more evangelicals will revert to their pre-Falwell separationist stance, declining to get involved in politics at all.
Michael Sean Winters: Falwell's Legacy: Why Evangelicals Oppose Romney Michael Sean Winters 2012
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Romney's concern today has to be that, if the GOP nominates a second presidential candidate whose record on social issues is murky at best, more and more evangelicals will revert to their pre-Falwell separationist stance, declining to get involved in politics at all.
Michael Sean Winters: Falwell's Legacy: Why Evangelicals Oppose Romney Michael Sean Winters 2012
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Esbeck has an unlikely ally in retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, a stalwart church-state separationist.
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Esbeck has an unlikely ally in retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, a stalwart church-state separationist.
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I believe, that in addition to docetists christians (who believed that Jesus only seemed to suffer), separationist as the followers of Cerinthus (c 100 CE), were the opponents of Ignatius in his letter to Trallians.
Mythunderstanding The Criteria Of Authenticity James F. McGrath 2010
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