• Independentist

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /ɪndəˈpÉ›ndÉ™ntɪst/

    Full definition of independentist

    Noun

    independentist

    (plural independentists)
    1. One who favours independence (of a non-independent state).
      • 1980, Migration Today, volumes 8–9, https://books.google.com/books?id=SS4kAQAAIAAJ&q=%22independentists%22&dq=%22independentists%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LQOQVaGQJIjboAS-vIGADA&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBg:The independentists denounced dependency as colonial lackeyism
      • 2004, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947, page 182:Between 1939 and 1947 the independentists concerned themselves primarily with the welfare of the Polish majority.
      • 2013, Various, The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology, Although a classification of terrorism activities can vary, the most active terrorist groups in those years can be divided into extremist and separatist
        independentist movements.
      • 2014, Jaime Lluch, Visions of Sovereignty, page 106:Most were inclined to identify strongly with Québec, but they were less monolithic than the independentists in their self-identification, given that some were willing to express a dual identity.
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