Cessions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CESSIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CESSION, a yielding to physical force
• the formal giving up of rights, property, or territory by a state
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of ceding

Words related to CESSIONS

cession9

Words that contain CESSIONS

accessions14 decessions13 recessions12 secessions12 concessions15 precessions15 processions15 successions15 reaccessions16 deaccessions17 intercessions15 retrocessions15 antirecessions16

How to use CESSIONS in a sentence

• Negotiations are now depending with the tribes in the Illinois Territory and with the Choctaws, by which it is expected that other extensive cessions will be made.
• Bach State holds territory according to its original charter, except in cases where cessions have been made to the United States by individual States.
• It has been the prudent policy of Congress to appease this controversy, by prevailing upon the States to make cessions to the United States for the benefit of the whole.
• With the Indians who were thus present the whites went through the form of a treaty under which they received large cessions of Cherokee lands.
• But that pledge formed no part of the compacts with the States, or of the conditions upon which the cessions were made.
• You will, perhaps, say, that Virginia and Maryland made their cessions of the territory, which constitutes the District of Columbia, with reservations on the subject of slavery.
• They had also to reward the nineteen tribes of the Hsiung-nu in the north for their military aid, not only with cessions of land but with payments of money.
• The queen was required to surrender her conquests in Italy, and to confirm her cessions of Silesia to Prussia.
• As to the eventual cessions, Alfonse and his wife were still alive and likely to live many years.
• Italy, Greece, Rumania, and Serbia were enlarged by cessions of territory and Serbia was transformed into the great state of Jugoslavia.
• These cessions already constitute one fourth of the States of the Union.
• The formal cessions were made and accepted in the years 1782-6.
• The Government formed under the Constitution succeeded to all this land, and in addition, to further cessions made by the States, the last being that of Georgia in 1802.
• The history of these cessions, and the reasons for making them, are familiar to you.
• Besides, I believed that we could have struck out the cessions of territory, and had peace just as soon.
• Some tribes derive an income from funds which are the proceeds derived from the sales and cessions of their lands.
• Explain by a map the Mexican cessions of 1848 and 1853.
• The cessions of seaports to other powers are considered as temporary leases.
• Gold had been discovered in California! The Mexican cessions and Oregon could be felt on Broadway.
• The public domain had its origin in cessions of land by the States to the General Government.

Similar words containing CESSION without suffix s

cession9 accession13 decession12 recession11 secession11 accessions14 cessionary15 concession14 decessions13 precession14 procession14 recessions12 secessions12 succession14 accessional15 accessioned16 concessions15 precessions15 processions15 reaccession15 recessional13 secessional13 successions15 deaccession16 accessioning17 cessionaries14 concessional16 concessioner16 intercession14 precessional16 prerecession16 processional16 processioned17 processioner16 reaccessions16 recessionals14 recessionary17 retrocession14 secessionism16 secessionist14 successional16 deaccessions17 antirecession15 concessionary20 concessioners17 concessionist17 intercessions15 postrecession17 processionals17 processionary20 processioners17 processioning18 recessionista15 retrocessions15 secessionisms17 secessionists15 successionist17 deaccessioned19 concessionaire18 concessionists18 intercessional16 precessionally21 processionally21 processionings19 recessionistas16 successionally21 successionists18 successionless18 deaccessioning20 antirecessions16 circumincession23 concessionaires19 concessionaries19 concessionnaire19 processionalist19 processionaries19 antirecessionar17 antirecessionary21

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