: opposed to political secession
These former Whigs and anti-secession Democrats began to assume power as elections to consider secession were producing huge pro-Union … majorities.—
Lawrence M. Denton, William Henry Seward and the Secession Crisis, 2009
anti-secessionist
adjective
or less commonly antisecessionist
In any case, the growth of anti-secessionist declarations corresponds with the number of ongoing civil wars in the world.
—Ann Hironaka, Neverending Wars, 2005
anti-secessionist
noun
or less commonly antisecessionist
plural anti-secessionists also antisecessionists
The two anti-secessionists … proved so unpopular with the troops that neither of them lasted long.
—Bruce S. Allardice, More Generals in Gray, 1995
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