Secession - English meaning

noun

The abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle.

Usage examples:

The execution of their leader for apostasy brought widespread criticism

noun

The act of giving up your religious or political beliefs and leaving a religion or a political party

Usage examples:

In those days apostasy was punishable by death.

verb

Separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain.

Usage examples:

The branch broke with a loud snap

noun

An interruption of continuity or uniformity.

Usage examples:

The magazine has been published without a break since 1950

noun

Former term for breaking cart.

noun

A divergence or radical change from something established or long-standing.

Usage examples:

Rock was a breakaway from pop

adjective

Independent after leaving another group

Usage examples:

A breakaway republic/territory

noun

An act of separating from a group, especially because of disagreement

Usage examples:

The sports association accepted the inevitability of a breakaway by the elite clubs., the breakaway…

noun

The desertion of one's country or cause in favour of an opposing one.

Usage examples:

The very public defections of four writers from the publishing house

noun

The act of leaving a country, political party, etc. to go to another one

Usage examples:

Over the years there were hundreds of defections to the west/defections from the east., recent chan…

noun

The action of deserting a person, cause, or organization.

Usage examples:

I resented what i saw as my parents' desertion

noun

The act of leaving the armed forces without permission

Usage examples:

During the war, desertion was punishable by death., there were thousands of desertions in the last …

noun

The act of leaving someone behind in a difficult situation or when you should not do this

Usage examples:

Roger got his divorce on the grounds of desertion (= because his wife had left him).

verb

Go away from.

Usage examples:

She left london on june 6

verb

(of a plant) put out new leaves.

Usage examples:

Trees leaved, wild flowers burst in profusion on the far side of the lake.

noun

(in snooker, croquet, and other games) the position in which a player leaves the balls for the next player.

verb

Leave (a place), usually permanently.

Usage examples:

Hippies finally quit two sites in hampshire last night

adjective

Rid of.

Usage examples:

I want to be quit of him

noun

Used in names of various small songbirds found in the caribbean area, e.g. bananaquit, grassquit.

Usage examples:

The grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night.

noun

An act of resigning from a job or office.

Usage examples:

He announced his resignation

noun

A split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.

Usage examples:

The widening schism between church leaders and politicians

noun

A division of a group into two opposing groups, esp. in a church

noun

The action or state of moving or being moved apart.

Usage examples:

The damage that might arise from the separation of parents and children

noun

The action of ending a connection or relationship.

Usage examples:

The severance and disestablishment of the irish church

verb

Break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain.

Usage examples:

The ice cracked and split

noun

A tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain.

Usage examples:

Splits appeared in the decaying planks

proper noun

A seaport on the coast of southern croatia; population 177,500 (est. 2009). founded as a roman colony in 78 bc, it contains the ruins of the palace of the emperor diocletian, built in about ad 300.

noun

The action of dividing or being divided into parts.

Usage examples:

The splitting of water into its components of hydrogen and oxygen is critical

adjective

(of a headache) severe.

Usage examples:

I woke up with a splitting headache

verb

Break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain.

Usage examples:

The ice cracked and split

noun

The action of withdrawing something.

Usage examples:

The withdrawal of legal aid

noun

An act of taking something back, removing something, or moving something back

Usage examples:

[ c ] a troop withdrawal, [ c ] he had made several large withdrawals from his bank account (= he h…

noun

The act of taking money out of an account, or the amount of money taken

Usage examples:

The savings account only allows you to make three withdrawals a year., there's a cash withdrawal li…