independentist
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editindependent + -ist
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editindependentist (plural independentists)
- One who favours independence (of a non-independent state).
- Synonym: separatist
- 1980, Migration Today[1], volumes 8-9:
- 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, page 486:
- 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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