separatist:
(also ‘separationist‘; plural: ‘separatists‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
English separatists of Church of England in the past
any person who wants to be away or set apart from others, especially of racial or regional or ethnic group, or a person who supports the idea of keeping someone away from them basing on racial, regional or ethnic identity;
(religious) a person or group of people who wants to keep themselves from an age old practices of a religious system;
(political) a person or a group of people from one region or area that wants to be free of the rule and be independent of a larger state or province,
(a satirical cartoon on separatists wanting to be united)
Being a staunch separatist, John never attends the Roman Catholic masses even if he is invited by his own family members.
The Spanish government blamed the Basque separatists, those who demanded to be independent of the Spanish government, for the worst terrorist attacks in Spain’s political history.
Almost every country in the world has at least one group of separatists who asks for separation from the main stream to have a separate state and government of its own: Kurdish separatists in Iraq, separatists in Turkey, Albanian separatists in Europe, tribal separatists in Pakistan, Kashmir separatists in India and Quebec separatists in Canada to name a few!
