Word Meanings - SECESSIONISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

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• SECESSIONISM
  The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.
• SECESSION
  The withdrawal of a State from the national Union. Secession Church . See Seceder. (more info) 1. The act of seceding; separation from fellowship or association with others, as in a religious or political organization; withdrawal.
• POLICY
  1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method
• SECESSIONIST
  One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will. (more info) 1. One who upholds secession.
• DOCTRINE
  1. Teaching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2. 2. That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.
• TERM POLICY
  A policy of term insurance.
• VALUED POLICY
  A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.
• VALUED-POLICY LAW
  A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.
• BLANKET MORTGAGE; BLANKET POLICY
  One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.
• TIME POLICY
  A policy limited to become void at a specified time; -- often contrasted with voyage policy.
• MONROE DOCTRINE
  See DOCTRINE
• ENDOCTRINE
  To teach; to indoctrinate. Donne.