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Definition of confederacy

Confederacy
Confederacy Con*fed"er*a*cy, n. (Amer. Hist.) With the, the Confederate States of America.
Confederacy
Confederacy Con*fed"er*a*cy, n.; pl. Confederacies. [From Confederate, a.] 1. A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance. The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice or leagues of pleasure. --Addison. He hath heard of our confederacy. --Shak. Virginia promoted a confederacy. --Bancroft. 2. The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation. The Grecian common wealth, . . . the most heroic confederacy that ever existed. --Harris. Virgil has a whole confederacy against him. --Dryden. 3. (Law) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. Syn: League; compact; alliance; association; union; combination; confederation.

Meaning of confederacy from wikipedia

- Look up confederacy, confederate, Confederate, or Confederacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Confederacy or confederate may refer to: Confederate...
- America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern...
- A Confederacy of Dunces is a novel by American writer John Kennedy Toole that was published in 1980, 11 years after Toole's death. Published through the...
- The Blackfoot Confederacy, Niitsitapi, or Siksikaitsitapi (ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ, meaning "the people" or "Blackfoot-speaking real people"), is a historic collective...
- The Sikh Confederacy was the confederation of the twelve sovereign states (known as the Misl, derived from the Arabic word مِثْل meaning 'equal'; sometimes...
- civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which had been formed by states that had seceded from...
-  'people who are building the longhouse') are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America...
- The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate hereditary ****ociation for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers...
- The Old Swiss Confederacy, also known as Switzerland or the Swiss Confederacy, was a loose confederation of independent small states (cantons, German...
- Te****seh's confederacy was a confederation of indigenous peoples of the Great Lakes region of North America that began to form in the early 19th century...