independentist

plural independentists

1. One who favours independence (of a non-independent state).

   The independentists denounced dependency as colonial lackeyism

   1980, Migration Today, volumes 8-9

   3 more examples

   Between 1939 and 1947 the independentists concerned themselves primarily with the welfare of the Polish majority.

   2004, Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Between Nazis and Soviets: Occupation Politics in Poland, 1939-1947, page 182

   Although a classification of terrorism activities can vary, the most active terrorist groups in those years can be divided into extremist and separatist / independentist movements.

   2013, Various, The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology, page 486

   Most were inclined to identify strongly with Québec, but they were less monolithic than the independentists in their self-identification, given that some were willing to express a dual identity.

   2014, Jaime Lluch, Visions of Sovereignty, page 106

   Synonyms: separatist