separationist (sep a rash on ist)

[ No excellence, moral, mental, or physical, inborn or attained, can buy for a "man of colour," from these separa tionists , any distinction between the restrictions of his civil liberty and those of the stupidest and squalidest of his race. G. W. Cable, Contemporary Rev., LIII. 452. separatism (sep'a-rā-tizm), n. [ separatist (sep'a-rā-tist), n. and a. [ centuries: applied to the members of various specific sects, especially Germany and Ireland. After a faint struggle he [Charles II.] yielded, and pa ed, with the show of alacrity, a series of odious acts against the separatists. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., ii. But at no time in his history was the Nonconformist or Puritan a Separatist or Di enter from the Church of Eng R. W. Dizon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. (6) In recent British politics, an epithet applied by the Unionist party to their opponents, whom they charge with favoring the separation of Ireland from the United King dom. The Home Rule party are properly separatists , for their policy leads inevitably to separation. Contemporary Rev. , L. 158.