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Confederacy vs Conclave - What's the difference?

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Confederacy is a related term of conclave.


As a proper noun confederacy

is (historical) the informal name for the , the collection of american states that seceded from the united states in 1861, and fought against the union in the american civil war.

As a noun conclave is

conclave.

confederacy

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(confederacies)
  • an alliance

    • conclave

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope.
  • The group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals.
  • * (Robert South)
    • It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal.
  • A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.
  • * (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
    • The verdicts pronounced by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London.

    Derived terms

    * in conclave: engaged in a secret meeting; said of a group of people.

    Related terms

    * clave * clavis