se cession ist (ss as sh)

[Eng.sece ion; -ist.] 1. One who secedes from a party or a ociation; a seceder. "If, therefore, the breach seems wide and the feelings left by the contest bitter, the fault lies with the Sece ion ists ."-London Daily Telegraph. 2. One who upholds or maintains the principle of sece ionism; spec if., in the United States, one who took part or sympathized with the Southern States in the struggle, begun in 1861, to break away from union with the Northern States.