Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to, or of the nature of, a confederation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a confederation.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
confederates of aconfederation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective united in a confederacy or league
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Examples
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Could he have pushed Yeltsin to the brink, extracting Tatarstan-like concessions, but then settled for a confederative status within the Russian Republic?
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Could he have pushed Yeltsin to the brink, extracting Tatarstan-like concessions, but then settled for a confederative status within the Russian Republic?
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Could he have pushed Yeltsin to the brink, extracting Tatarstan-like concessions, but then settled for a confederative status within the Russian Republic?
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Could he have pushed Yeltsin to the brink, extracting Tatarstan-like concessions, but then settled for a confederative status within the Russian Republic?
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The confederative diet further decreed the increase of the army, granted imposts on the property of the nobility and clergy, and established a commission of war dependent on the diet only, in order to check the influence of the permanent council of state, which their spoliators had created, for the purpose of destroying the national power.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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In default of a confederative system, the several States were held in equilibrium by diplomacy.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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In default of a confederative system, the several States were held in equilibrium by diplomacy.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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During the Avignonian captivity and the Great Schism, Italy developed intellectual and confederative unity, imposing her laws of culture and of state-craft even on the Papacy when it returned to Rome.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866
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In default of a confederative system, the several states were held in equilibrium by diplomacy.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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Another senior Dashnak lawmaker Vahan Hovhannisyan spoke about the current situation in neighboring Georgia and, in particular, called for it to become a confederative state and for Javakhk, a mostly Armenian-populated province in Georgia, to become an autonomy within that state. “Georgian leaders should have understood that the guarantee of Georgia†™ s development and stability is a confederative state and in that case the rights of Javakhk would be protected, †he said.
Armenianow 2008
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