Abolitionist
[æbə'lɪʃ(ə)nɪst] or [,æbə'lɪʃənɪst]
Definition
(n.) A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
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Examples
- Why, wife, you are getting to be an abolitionist, quite. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I do not think the Abolitionists saw facts truly when they disbanded their organization a few years after the civil war. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In the various agitations of vigilance committees and alliances for the suppression of the traffic they profess to see continued a work which the abolitionists began. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That the abolitionists clarified the economic interests of the North and gave them an ideal sanction is true enough. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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