SEPARATIST

[sep.a.rat.ist] n (1608): one that favors separatism: as a cap: one of a group of 16th and 17th century English Protestants preferring to separate from rather than to reform the Church of England b: an advocate of independence or autonomy for a part of a political unit (as a nation) c: an advocate of racial or cultural separation -- separatist adj -- sep.a.ra.tis.tic adj