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Detailed description and alternate definitions of the word 'confederacy':
  A union of persons, parties, or states; a league.
  The persons, parties, or states joined in such a union.
  The Confederate States of America.
  A group of people who have united for unlawful practices; a conspiracy.

Synonyms of word 'confederacy' :
 Confederate States
 Confederate States of America
 confederation
 Dixie
 conspiracy
 Dixieland
 South
 federation
 conspiracy


Usage of the word 'confederacy' in Sentences :
  confederacy of tribes with a common language.
  confederacy as an independent nation, and he insisted on the restoration of the Union without slavery.
  Johnson supported Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and was the only Southern senator who refused to join the confederacy.
  As little did the territory of the Italian confederacy present any tenable basis.
  confederacy of dunces Henry McDonald: What is it that unites the IRA and Eta or the UDA and Gibraltar?
  So powerful were these teachings that the tribes of the Algonquin peoples formed the Iroquois confederacy.
  The tree and its roots represented the five tribes of the Iroquois confederacy.
  You still see Hollywood making movies that celebrate the confederacy, in various ways, as a sad, lost cause.
  The western confederacy was now completely isolated from the eastern Confederacy and the Union Army had total control of the Mississippi River.
  Lincoln refused to recognize the confederacy as an independent nation, and he insisted on the restoration of the Union without slavery.
  The western confederacy was now completely isolated from the eastern Confederacy and the Union Army had total control of the Mississippi River.
  It propagated freedom of speech while f the defeated confederacy, subjected to Yankee interlopers and groping for a new identity ( pp.
  For some this was a race against time to show that the potency of race in the former confederacy had been extinguished.
  David led a confederacy of the twelve tribes and founded a hereditary monarchy with Jerusalem as its capital.
  Crowther, 8 February ) We depend fundamentally for our knowledge of the second Athenian confederacy on the evidence of inscriptions.

Usage of the word 'confederacy' in popular media :
Washington Post   —
 this confederacy wrote a constitution, chose a president and was preparing to defend itself..... read more ››
 one can not imagine the confederacy surviving or even launching itself had federal forts, arsenals, post offices, mints, light houses, and ships remained in u. s. custody. .... read more ››
 more directly, the fact that the confederacy held on to forts along the ocean made the war more difficult for lincolnæ’??s armies and navies. .... read more ››
 fort fisher in north carolina survived until late in the war, providing refuge for southern ships and defense of that area of the confederacy..... read more ››

Wall Street Journal   —
 when the confederacy initiated war by attacking fort sumter, lincoln acted promptly and decisively, justifying some seemingly extra-constitutional actions as consistent with his "higher" duty to "preserve, protect and defend" the constitution..... read more ››
 if all of them found their way to the confederacy, then a whopping 3% of the south's circulating money was printed by one man in philadelphia..... read more ››
 the confederacy of upham's day never could resist the siren song of the printing press..... read more ››
  two centuries later, the u.s. was torn apart by a civil war between the union and the confederacy. .... read more ››




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