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Definition of Confederacy

a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
a union of political organizations
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861

Hyponyms: conspiracy of silence, nation, Creek Confederacy, Hanseatic League

Attributes: south, southern

Derivational Morphology: conspire, collude, federate, federalize, federalise, confederate, band together

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