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confederate

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1. confederate - Noun

2. confederate - Adjective

3. confederate - Verb

4. confederate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money.

One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense.

A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865).

To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally.

To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. Allen Tate

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. Allen Tate

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples - that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at. Mark Twain

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny. Robert Dale Owen

The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. Alan Keyes

Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. Harper Lee

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