Separatist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Separatist \Sep`a*ra*tist\, n. [Cf. F. s['e]paratiste.]
     One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who
     withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder
     from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a
     schismatic; a sectary.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting
           of separatist .                          --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  separatist
       adj : having separated or advocating separation from another
             entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction"
             [syn: {breakaway}, {fissiparous}]
       n : an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group
           (such as an established church or a national union) [syn:
            {separationist}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "separatist":
     abjuratory, apostate, backslider, bolter, breakaway,
     collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, demurrer,
     deserter, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, fifth columnist,
     misbeliever, mugwump, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, nonconformist,
     objector, opinionist, opposition voice, proselyte, protestant,
     protester, quisling, recidivist, recreant, recusant, renegade,
     renegado, renegate, renunciative, renunciatory, repudiative,
     repudiatory, reversionist, revocatory, runagate, schismatic,
     seceder, secessionist, sectarian, sectary, strikebreaker,
     tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat,
     turntail