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I've been trying to find a word for this concept and not had any luck in dictionaries or on Google. If a part of a nation or state decides to separate from the whole, it secedes. Is there a term for a nation or state booting part of itself out? For a (purely hypothetical) example, if Canada decided it no longer wished to govern British Columbia and rescinded its sovereignty claims, what would that be called? I thought of expulsion or renunciation but those are more general terms. |
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It is a rare event. The events in 1965 when Singapore left Malaysia have been called expulsion, separation and independence, depending on on whose history book you read. If you want to stress that it was involuntary, then expulsion looks like the best word. |
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diremption a forced sundering. I first came across it in a translation of Hegel. The original German is, Entzweiung - or, split. From the Latin, it appears to be used transitively - thus its pertinence. The state, or the self, for Hegel, dirempts itself and cleaves a withered portion away. |
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According to Wikipedia, West Virginia broke away in turn from seceding Virginia during the Civil War, thereby "seceding from secession." |
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