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Anti-Confederate ((n.))
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:Anti-Confederationist.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an opponent of Confederation, especially one opposed to the Quebec Resolutions of 1865.
Quotations
1866
Some months since this Island was honored by a visit from prominent Anti-confederates from Nova Scotia.
1960
When the vote [in Newfoundland] was taken in 1869, the Confederates were badly beaten. The Anti-Confederates elected twenty-one out of thirty candidates, and that night they held a great celebration in St. John's.