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Webster 1913 Edition
Confederacy
1.
A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
The friendships of the world are oft
Confederacies
in vice or leagues of pleasure. Addison.
He hath heard of our
confederacy
. Shakespeare
Virginia promoted a
confederacy
. Bancroft.
2.
The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic
confederacy
that ever existed. Harris.
Virgil has a whole
confederacy
against him. Dryden.
Syn. – League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation.
Webster 1828 Edition
Confederacy
CONFEDERACY
,Noun.
1.
A league, or covenant; a contract between two or more persons, bodies of men or states, combined in support of each other, in some act or enterprise; mutual engagement; federal compact. The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice. A confederacy of princes to check innovation.
2.
The persons, states or nations united by a league.Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.
3.
In law, a combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act.Definition 2024
Confederacy
Confederacy
See also: confederacy
English
Proper noun
Confederacy
- (historical) The Confederate States of America, the collection of American states that seceded from the United States in 1861, and fought against the Union in the American Civil War.
See also
confederacy
confederacy
See also: Confederacy
English
Alternative forms
Noun
confederacy (plural confederacies)
- an alliance
Translations
Alliance
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