confederacy. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

confederacy

SYLLABICATION:	con·fed·er·a·cy
PRONUNCIATION:	kn-fdr--s
NOUN:	Inflected forms: pl. con·fed·er·a·cies 1a. A union of persons, parties, or states; a league. b. The persons, parties, or states joined in such a union. c. Confederacy The Confederate States of America. 2. A group of people who have united for unlawful practices; a conspiracy.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English confederacie, from Anglo-Norman, from Late Latin cnfoederti, cnfoedertin-, agreement, from cnfoedertus, past participle of confoederre, to unite. See confederate.


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