Definitions for confederacies

confederacies con·fed·er·a·cy

Spelling: [kuh n-fed-er-uh-see, -fed-r Confederacies is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 1625 anagrams from letters in confederacies (accdeeefinors).

Definitions for confederacies

noun

  1. an alliance between persons, parties, states, etc., for some purpose.
  2. a group of persons, parties, states, etc., united by such a confederacy.
  3. a combination of persons for unlawful purposes; conspiracy.
  4. the Confederacy, Confederate States of America.

plural noun

  1. the group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1860–61.

Origin of confederacies

1350-1400; Middle English confederacie Anglo-French; see confederate, -acy

Examples for confederacies

But that bold suggestion went nowhere with the politicians, who stalled until the idea, along with the confederacy, was dead.

I wouldn't have got off my horse and leaned over that box to save the confederacy.

And it is a situation impossible to brush under the carpet because the confederacy transformed the Union.

While the dream of the confederacy was kept alive, the men on the battlefield on both sides perished by the tens of thousands.

Our confederacy, fellow-citizens, can only be preserved by the same forbearance.

Alexander Stephens, vice president of the confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.

In all the confederacy no houseful went to sleep that night in sweeter content.

They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the Citadel of the confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable.

It had been given only four times in the long history of the confederacy.

Moreover, this was the heart of the confederacy and other unknown forces might be gathering.

Word Value for confederacies
Scrable

22

Words with friends

24

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