abolitionist
English
Etymology
First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
abolitionist (comparative more abolitionist, superlative most abolitionist)
- (historical) In favor of the abolition of slavery. [since the late 18th century][1]
Noun
abolitionist (plural abolitionists)
- A person who favors the abolition of any particular institution. [since the late 18th century][1]
- (historical, US) A person who favored or advocated the abolition of slavery. [since the late 18th century][1]
- 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom Chapter 3
- Among other slave notabilities of the plantation, was one called by everybody Uncle Isaac Copper. It is seldom that a slave gets a surname from anybody in Maryland; and so completely has the south shaped the manners of the north, in this respect, that even abolitionists make very little of the surname of a negro.
- 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom Chapter 3
Translations
person who favors the abolition
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abolitionist”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
- “abolitionist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.