Confederation [noun]

Definition of Confederation:

union

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Sentence/Example of Confederation:

The suspense with which Louis listened to this perfidious confederation, was almost insufferable.

The promise of obedience to God by vow or oath, includes a promise of certain services to each member of the confederation.

And how would the general confederation testify to a glorious work of reformation!

A committee was appointed to draw up such a plan and, in 1777, it submitted the Articles of Confederation to Congress.

By 1785, the Americans began to realize that the Articles of Confederation were too weak to become effective.

Shall the Félibres aim at local self-government, at a confederation something like that of the Swiss cantons?

Minghetti, Ricasoli, Farini each and all have been the advocates of a confederation of princes rather than of a united Italy.

In 1763 Pontiac, head-chief of the Ottawas, formed a confederation against the English.

Where sovereign communities are parties, there is no essential difference between a compact, a confederation, and a league.

Nothing, certainly, can more clearly distinguish a government from a confederation of states than the possession of these powers.