secession

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secession (enc)

Noun	1.	secession - an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s sezession school - a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" art movement, artistic movement - a group of artists who agree on general principles
	2.	Secession - the withdrawal of eleven Southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War separation - the act of dividing or disconnecting
	3.	secession - formal separation from an alliance or federation withdrawal separation - the act of dividing or disconnecting breakaway, breaking away - the act of breaking away or withdrawing from; "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood"

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