What's the difference between secessionism and secessionist?
Secessionism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
Example Sentences:
(1) Luigi Di Maio, one of M5S’s rising stars, also declared that the populist movement was ready to form a government, while the Northern League head, Matteo Salvini, said his fringe party – which has its roots in secessionism – ought to be considered a “serious alternative”.
(2) It has viewed Kurdish secessionism as a threat that could drag the US back into the region.
(3) But this is no way to stem what seems a worldwide outbreak of intellectual and moral secessionism.
Secessionist
Definition:
(n.) One who upholds secession.
(n.) One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will.
Example Sentences:
(1) Potentially the most destabilising regional development is the secessionist movement in neighbouring northern Mali, driven by battle-hardened, largely secular Tuareg forces who fought for Libya's late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, as well as Islamist fighters.
(2) I imagine that many, or most, in both categories would vote in favour of Britain staying in Europe, and the Euro-secessionists are obviously worried that we might swing the outcome.
(3) Ruwa is the leader of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), a secessionist group outlawed by the Kenyan government in 2010 but unbanned by the courts in July.
(4) That is why every successful secessionist movement has founded its claim on legal entitlement to the territory that they seek to “liberate”.
(5) The emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers was convened in Brussels to respond to the upsurge in violence in eastern Ukraine, notably last week’s shelling of the town of Mariupol by pro-Russian secessionists which left 30 civilians dead and 100 wounded.
(6) Last week, the rebels announced that they had taken over and dissolved parliament, plunging the country deeper into turmoil and threatening to turn the crisis into a full-blown sectarian conflict, pitting the Iran-backed Houthi Shia against Sunni tribesmen and secessionists in the south.
(7) Given the complexity of Yemeni society, talks will need to take in the concerns of many of the others involved: notably players such as southern secessionists and tribal leaders, but also representatives of women’s groups and other civil society activists.
(8) What makes a secessionist claim successful in the eyes of the international community – indeed, in the eyes of the people fighting for secession – is the existence of a historical grievance over territory.
(9) The rise of Milosevic alarmed the non-Serb republics and reinforced secessionist movements, particularly in Slovenia and Croatia.
(10) His surprise decision brings an end to more than three months of deadlock between Mas’ “Together for Yes” secessionist alliance and the more radical, far-left separatist CUP party that together hold a majority in the Catalan parliament.
(11) The Northern League started as a secessionist party that argued for a separation of rich northern Italy from the poor south, but Salvini has – with mixed success – changed the party’s focus.
(12) He pointed in particular to the south-east, where Igbo secessionist groups are demanding the restoration of the ill-fated republic of Biafra.
(13) But across Europe we are now seeing the rise of both anti-establishment, anti-immigrant parties of the right and secessionist movements, such as the one in Scotland.
(14) Alarm about terrorism, secessionist movements, tribal warfare and economic collapse has seen the Saudis intervene increasingly in Yemen's multiple crises.
(15) Armed secessionist groups operate in several parts of the country.
(16) The leftwing and secessionist CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) had come under intense pressure to back Mas, who over the past three years has emerged as the key figure in the independence movement.
(17) The deal means that Catalonia is likely to accelerate its secessionist challenge in the ongoing game of chicken with the central government,” he said.
(18) The question many are asking is whether Mas is a closet secessionist who has finally come out or just an old-fashioned opportunist surfing the nationalist tide that has risen out of the economic crisis.
(19) Though there are no convictions, and the Pujols claim it is all a fabrication staged by Madrid, among the feisty masses of Catalonia it has pushed more secessionists towards the ERC.
(20) The Northern League chose what president Giorgio Napolitanio, called a "very delicate and crucial" moment to announce it was re-opening its ostensibly secessionist Parliament of Padania.