confederally

English

Etymology

From confederal.

Adverb

confederally (comparative more confederally, superlative most confederally)

1. In a confederal manner.
   • 1991, R. Kenneth Carty, Canadian Political Parties in the Constituencies, Dundurn Press, page 51:

     This would probably take the form of either more confederally structured parties or more Byzantine overlap and obfuscation within parties committed to an integrated approach to political party life in Canada.

   • 1998, Daniel Judah Elazar, Covenant and Constitutionalism: The Great Frontier and the Matrix of Federal Democracy, Volume 3: The Covenant Tradition in Politics, Transaction Publishers, page 114,

     Most religious denominations are organized federally or confederally in the United States, with greater or lesser degrees of congregational autonomy and regional or national authority.

   • 2003, Craig Parsons, “A Certain Idea of Europe”, in Paperback, Cornell University Press, published 2006, page 64:

     Pro-ECSC figures like Paul Reynaud, Antoine Pinay, and Andre Mutter persuaded confederally minded skeptics like Joseph Laniel, Émmanuel Temple, and Roger Duchet to maintain the majority.

   • 2005, Zara S. Steiner, The Lights that Failed: European International History, 1919-1933, Oxford University Press, page 235:

     Whereas he had previously aimed at an administratively independent province joined confederally with the Reich, in the later talks with the French, after the collapse of the Rhenish currency scheme in December, he shifted their focus from the political to the economic plane.