(n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance.
(n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.
(n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy.
Example Sentences:
(1) His church is looked down upon by a lofty bronze of Jefferson Davis, last president of the confederacy, white supremacist and owner of 100 slaves.
(2) In the meantime other icons of the Confederacy – flags, monuments, markers, license plates and bumper stickers on automobiles – are increasingly drawing petitions around the country.
(3) Europe remains a confederacy of wildly differing habits, cultures and political traditions.
(4) In view of the new prescriptions for radioprotection of the Helevetic Confederacy (Eidgenössische Strahlenschutzverordnung) the problems of radioprotection connected with utilization of the pure beta-ray emitter tritium are exposed, since the latter frequently is used as a marker substance in biomedical investigations.
(5) Winter Garden Theatre, New York, starts 9 November A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole didn’t live long enough to see the publication of his celebrated comic novel, so he definitely isn’t around for the theatrical adaptation, which will premier at the Huntington with designs on a Broadway run.
(6) It’s Jeb, like the ... (exhausted sigh) ... like the President.” I can hate that he and Confederacy-worshipping racists attach a disgusting tradition to the good and noble name my parents gave me as a piss-take about a Watergate co-conspirator .
(7) One symbol is gone; the statues and street names and school names and county names paying homage to the Confederacy and its slavery-defending politicians and generals remain.
(8) Ben Jones is the chief of heritage operations for the Sons of Confederate Veterans and traces multiple lines of ancestry, he said, to soldiers who died fighting for the Confederacy.
(9) The battle flag of the former American Confederacy will stop flying at South Carolina’s statehouse on Friday, 23 days after a mass shooting at one of the state’s emblematic black churches – and 150 years after the south lost a civil war fought largely over slavery, and for which the flag’s endurance has remained a lasting symbol of racism.
(10) The shooting triggered yet another debate about the divisive flag and its connection to the Confederacy, which seceded from the Union over the issue of slavery.
(11) The condescension is reminiscent of the musings of Ignatius J Reilly, the hapless protagonist of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, regarding African Americans apparent conservatism.
(12) Granted, citizens in the old Confederacy are no longer forced to say how many bubbles are in a bar of soap before they can cast a ballot.
(13) The visionary outcome of a leave vote ought to be a grand debate across the continent, a search for a new confederacy of nation states.
(14) The standard of the former American confederacy – the battle flag of a long-ago bloody, racial conflict between the states, and a more recent ideological conflict – stood waving deep in enemy territory, surrounded by modernity: in downtown Columbia, verandas and parlors long ago gave way to hipster clothing shops, to kayaking outfitters, to Starbucks.
(15) Political affiliation in the former Confederacy has undergone a fundamental overhaul in the last 50 years, during which time the Democratic party went from being the part of segregation to the party with the overwhelming support of African Americans, and Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to an almost all-white party.
(16) This time, the Republican party has replaced the Dixiecrats as the party of white supremacy and the old Confederacy, of racial discrimination and voter suppression.
(17) South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy during the American civil war , which began because of disagreements about slavery and states’ rights.
(18) The former confederacy was, in many ways, the most racially integrated part of the US.
(19) What is needed is a new Europe for the 21st century, to replace the ramshackle corporatism erected in response to the 1945 settlement, a confederacy in which Britain should be proud to participate.
(20) There is no knowing what the ineptitude of London politics may do to the British confederacy.