separatist

IPA: sˈɛpɝʌtɪst

Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatics.
A person who advocates or seeks the splitting of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.

Advocating ecclesiastical separation.
Advocating or seeking the separation of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.

Examples of "separatist" in Sentences

Kashmir never belonged to India and thus the use of the term separatist is false).
China has been struggling for years to contain separatist sentiment among the ethnic Uighur minority in Xinjiang.
Joel Mahlangu of Mamelodi agreed, saying it was dangerous to promote what he called separatist ideology in education.
The true separatist is quite prepared to abandon the migrant French Canadian to absortion in the American culture that surrounds him.
The term separatist movements usually refers to social movements that aspire to autonomy for a particular group of people from a dominant political institution under which they suffer
Nobody in the PMO's communications office has yet answered the question why Harper has been using the term separatist when speaking of the Bloc Québecois for his anglophone audience and souverainiste when he speaks French.
Earlier this year Pamuk told a Swiss newspaper that Turkey had killed 30,000 Kurds in separatist struggles during recent decades and a million Armenians in a genocide during World War I. Discussion of either subject is highly controversial and stringently policed in Turkey.
Rather than use this opportunity to fairly distribute aid to the affected population -- many of whom being among the minority Tamil population or living in Tamil separatist-controlled areas -- the majority Sinhalese-controlled government dropped the ball and focused mainly on restoring tourist areas in the country's wealthier non-Tamil areas.