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secession noun. M16.
[French secession or Latin secessio(n-), from secess- pa. ppl stem of secedere SECEDE: see -ION.]
Roman History. A temporary migration of plebeians to a place outside the city of Rome, to compel patricians to redress their grievances. M16.
a. The action or an act of withdrawing from public view or going into seclusion or retirement; the condition of having so withdrawn. E17-M19.
b. (A) removal or separation of a material thing. M17-L18.
The action or an act of seceding; spec. (also Secession) (a) US History the seceding of eleven Southern States from the US Union in 1860, which gave rise to the American Civil War; (b) Scottish Ecclesiastical History the seceding of certain ministers from the established Church of Scotland in 1733 to form a separate Church (the Secession Church). M17.
b. Art. (Also Secession.) [translation of German Sezession.] A radical movement in art that began in Vienna and was contemporaneous with and related to art nouveau; the style of this movement. Also Vienna secession, Viennese secession. Cf. SEZESSION. L19.
secessional adjective M19.