"secessions" in the noun sense
1. secession, sezession
an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
2. Secession
the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
3. secession, withdrawal
formal separation from an alliance or federation
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