1. People who advocate for the dissolution or separation of a political union, especially the United States.
Usage: Plural form of disunionist; Historical: commonly used in 19th-century American political discourse, particularly regarding debates over secession

Examples

• Southern disunionists argued for states' rights and independence from the federal government.
• The disunionists believed that individual states should have the power to leave the Union.
• Political opponents labeled the radical disunionists as threats to national stability.
• Disunionists in the antebellum South promoted the idea of secession.
• The debate between unionists and disunionists intensified in the decades before the Civil War.