Secede vs Unity - What's the difference?
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To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
* 2007,
(uncommon) To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
* 2002 , Darryl E. Brock, "José Agustín Quintero: Cuban Patriot in Confederate Diplomatic Service", Cubans in the Confederacy: José Agustín Quintero, Ambrosio José Gonzales, and Loreta Janeta Velazquez , Ed. Phillip Thomas Tucker, publ. McFarland, ISBN 9780786409761,
(uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.
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A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.
* 1999 , Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams , Oxford 2008, p. 137:
(drama) Any of the three classical rules of drama (unity of action, unity of place, and unity of time).`
(mathematics) Any element of a set or field that behaves under a given operation as the number 1 behaves under multiplication.
(legal) The peculiar characteristics of an estate held by several in joint tenancy.
As a verb secede
is to split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.As a proper noun unity is
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Verb
(seced)Writers declare independence for Wirral., Wirral Globe, retrieved 11 July 2007.
- We can secede from the United Kingdom any time we want.
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- At the same time, Nolan also secretly contracted with the crafty United States Army general James Wilkinson to organize some men to secede Texas from Spanish America.
Usage notes
* For political entities, the term secede does not apply only to federal states, but also to other kinds of political unions. It is commonly used in the case of provinces seceding from a unitary state. * 'Secede' implies conflict, which may amount to physical conflict in the case of seceding from a political or religious entity, but which otherwise amounts to some form of disagreement at least by those who secede. * 'Withdrawal from membership' in the definition does not apply to an individual person who simply terminates membership in an organisation, but to a group which withdraws from membership to carry on related activities in a separate entity.unity
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(wikipedia unity)Noun
- If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression - for, if two sittings be required, the affairs of the world interfere, and everything like totality is at once destroyed.
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- If a single day has brought us two or more experiences suitable to initiate a dream, the dream will unite references to them both into a single whole; it obeys a compulsion to form a unity out of them .
