Associations to the word «Secession»

Wiktionary

SECESSION, noun. The act of seceding.
SECESSION WAR, proper noun. (outside the US) The American Civil War.

Dictionary definition

SECESSION, noun. An Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s.
SECESSION, noun. The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War.
SECESSION, noun. Formal separation from an alliance or federation.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin