Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who favors the abolition of some law, institution, or custom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
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Examples
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The main abolitionist organization in the U.S. was the The American Missionary Association, indenominational Christian but growing out of the evangelical movement.
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Of course our people did not know what the word abolitionist meant; they evidently
The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, 1895
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The Portent, in 1859, a poem in which he calls the abolitionist John Brown hanging in a tree "
theartblog 2009
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He knew an abolitionist was a person who wanted to end slavery.
PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010
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He knew an abolitionist was a person who wanted to end slavery.
PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010
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He knew an abolitionist was a person who wanted to end slavery.
PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010
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He affects to hate the abolitionist, which is odd, considering that he helps him in his dirty work of Disunion.
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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North is divided into two sections, of which one may be called abolitionist, and the other non-abolitionist.
North America 1862
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But for most of his 59 years, the abolitionist was a clean- shaven entrepreneur -- a mercantilist everyman in the rapidly expanding economy of the 19th century.
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Sakow, who definitively identifies herself as an "abolitionist," was in New York City on January 7th, the day before she was scheduled to leave for Israel.
Marcia G. Yerman: Sexual Trafficking in Israel Marcia G. Yerman 2011
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