| Secessionist 1. (n.) One who upholds secession. 2. (n.) One who holds to the belief that a State has the right to separate from the Union at its will. Thesaurus Entries abjuratory, apostate, backslider, bolter, breakaway, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, deserter, fifth columnist, mugwump, mugwumpian, mugwumpish, proselyte, quisling, recidivist, recreant, renegade, renegado, renegate, renunciative, renunciatory, repudiative, repudiatory, reversionist, revocatory, runagate, schismatic, seceder, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, turntail |