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confederacy

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
confederacy/kənˈfedərəsi/

▶noun (pl. confederacies)

1 a league or alliance, especially of confederate states.
■ (the Confederacy) the Confederate States of America.

2 a league formed for an unlawful purpose.

'confederacy' also found in these Oxford entries:

Blackfoot - Blood - Creek - Iroquois - Pawnee - Peigan - Seminole - Seneca - Siksika - Tuscarora - Wampanoag

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in so close a confederacy, that there was not a single vacancy near her which would admit of a chair.

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