Noun
- 1. secession, sezession, school, artistic movement, art movement
- usage: an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
- 2. Secession
- usage: the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
- 3. secession, withdrawal, separation
- usage: formal separation from an alliance or federation
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