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[ US /dɪsˈjunjən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the termination or destruction of union

How To Use disunion In A Sentence

  • So the historic gold and bimetallic standards receive attention, both as union and disunion (breaking-up).
  • It was Madison, they note, who nudged Jefferson out of retirement after his wife's death in 1782, initiated the criticisms of Hamilton that Jefferson continued in the early 1790s, was the "driving force" behind Jefferson's candidacy for the presidency in 1796, and helped reverse Jefferson's dangerously disunionist impulses three years later, after the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions had failed to rally the states against the Alien and Sedition Acts. Partners in revolution
  • But not only do they get to enjoy all the benefits of the union, they must accept all the responsibilities and duties of union and disunion.
  • He declared: "I do not believe that every Breckinridge man is a disunionist, but I do believe that every disunionist in America is a Breckinridge man. The Life of Abraham Lincoln
  • After Abraham Lincoln's election, however, momentum shifted toward disunion in Mobile as it did throughout the Deep South.
  • There is no danger if we hold together; the danger is in disunion, and they want to disunite us. The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • a forfeiture of the charter grant because they exercise that oppression and persecution contrary to its first intent, and are the direct cause of contention and disunion, which is repugnant to the principal design of constituting the colony; viz. that it "May be so religiously, peaceably and civilly governed as may win and invite the natives to the Christian faith." [l47] The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut
  • Those who could not follow the "disunion" and "non-resistance" principles of Garrison, but began to fear the aggression of the slave-power, joined the "Free Soil" and "Liberty" parties. Frederick Douglass
  • He affects to hate the abolitionist, which is odd, considering that he helps him in his dirty work of Disunion. Shadow of the Sentinel
  • To what extent the idea of disunion is entertained in some of the The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
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