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CONFEDERACY, n. L., a league. See Federal and Wed.

1. A league, or covenant a contract between two or more persons, bodies of men or states, combined in support of each other, in some act or enterprise mutual engagement federal compact.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice. A confederacy of princes to check innovation.

2. The persons, states or nations united by a league.

Virgil has a whole confederacy against him.

3. In law, a combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act.
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Entry for 'Confederacy'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​c/confederacy.html.
 
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