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Confederation   /kənfˌɛdərˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Confederation  n.  
1.
The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states. "The three princes enter into some strict league and confederation among themselves." "This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England."
2.
The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy.
Articles of confederation. See under Article.





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... Kimberley pointed out to him, there had been "so much divergence" between his views and those of the Home Government that he would not have been allowed to remain at the Cape, "had it not been for the special reason that there was a prospect of his being able materially to forward the policy of confederation." This prospect, of course, had then been removed by the failure of the Cape Government, on June 29th, to bring about the conference of delegates from the several States, which was the initial step towards the realisation of Lord Carnarvon's ...
— Lord Milner's Work in South Africa - From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 • W. Basil Worsfold
 
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... capitulation. The commander of the garrison refused to accept and an assault followed, the result of which was the surrender of the city. Bolivar was rewarded with the title of Capitan General of the Army of the Confederation, and Congress immediately transferred the capital ...
— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell
 
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... of the movement were men belonging to the upper classes and even to the royal families of Europe. A contemporary relates that no less than thirty princes—reigning and non-reigning—had taken under their protection a confederation from which they stood to lose everything and had become so imbued by its principles that they were inaccessible to reason.[612] Intoxicated by the flattery lavished on them by the priests of Illuminism, they ...
— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster
 
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... that, therefore, supporters of Marxian socialism should welcome a philosophy such as that of Bergson. Other writers, in their eagerness, asserted the collaboration of the Chair of Philosophy at the College de France with the aims of the Confederation Generale du Travail and the Industrial Workers of the World. It was claimed that there is harmony between the flute of personal philosophical meditation and the trumpet of social revolution. These statements are considered ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn
 
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... little-known country situated between the sources of the Orinoco and those of the rivers Essequibo, Carony, and Parima, are divided into tribes; and, like the nations of the Missouri, of Chili, and of ancient Germany, form a political confederation. This system is most in accordance with the spirit of liberty prevailing amongst those warlike hordes who see no advantage in the ties of society but for common defence. The pride of the Caribs leads them to withdraw themselves from every other tribe; ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt
 
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