Synonyms for confederacy
kənˈfɛd ər ə si, -ˈfɛd rə sicon·fed·er·a·cy

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1. confederacy

   Alliance is in its most common use a connection formed by treaty between sovereign states as for mutual aid in war. Partnership is a mercantile word; alliance chiefly political or matrimonial. Coalition is oftenest used of political parties; fusion is now the more common word in this sense. In an alliance between nations there is no surrender of sovereignty, and no union except for a specified time and purpose. League and alliance are used with scarcely perceptible difference of meaning. In a confederacy or confederation there is an attempt to unite separate states in a general government without surrender of sovereignty. Union implies so much concession as to make the separate states substantially one. Federation is mainly a poetic and rhetorical word expressing something of the same thought, as in Tennyson's "federation of the world," Locksley Hall, l. 128. The United States is not a confederacy nor an alliance; the nation might be called a federation, but prefers to be styled a federal union.

   Synonyms:
   alliance, coalition, compact, confederation, federation, fusion, league, partnership, union

   Antonyms:
   antagonism, discord, disunion, divorce, enmity, hostility, schism, secession, separation, war

   Preposition:
   Alliance with a neighboring people; against the common enemy; for offense and defense; alliance of, between, or among nations.

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1. confederacy

   Synonyms:
   alliance, treaty, league, union, association

   Antonyms:
   disruption, secession, disunion

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1. Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixielandnoun

   the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

   Synonyms:
   conspiracy, federation, confederation, southward, due south

2. confederation, confederacy, federationnoun

   a union of political organizations

   Synonyms:
   alliance, conspiracy, federation, confederation

3. conspiracy, confederacynoun

   a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

   Synonyms:
   cabal, conspiracy, federation, confederation

4. conspiracy, confederacynoun

   a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

   Synonyms:
   cabal, conspiracy, federation, confederation

Matched Categories

1. • Agreement
   • Geographical Area
   • Set
   • Union

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1. confederacynoun

   Synonyms:
   confederation (especially of independent states), federation, league, coalition, alliance, union, federal compact

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1. List of paraphrases for "confederacy":

   confederation, confederate

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1. Mack Williams:

   But it's for the Confederacy, which in my opinion, is a horrible thing, i don't think a work of art needs to be judged on its intent. ... I also don't think we should erase that and pretend it didn't happen or pretend it wasn't there.

2. Sonya Patrick:

   If the Daughters of the Confederacy, if they had a lot or somewhere they want to take those, that would be great -- or maybe Fort Fisher.

3. Jonathan Swift:

   When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

4. Jefferson Davis:

   The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves.

5. Franklin Pierce:

   ...involuntary servitude, as it exists in different states of this confederacy, is recognized by the Constitution.