Meaning of ABOLITIONIST
| Pronunciation: | | `abu'lishunist
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| | Definition: | | [n] a reformer who favors abolishing slavery |
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| | Synonyms: | | emancipationist |
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| | See Also: | | Arthur Tappan, Beecher, Brown, crusader, Douglass, Frederick Douglass, Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Henry Ward Beecher, John Brown, meliorist, reformer, reformist, Sojourner Truth, Stowe, Tappan, Theodore Dwight Weld, Truth, Tubman, Weld, William Lloyd Garrison | |
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| | Definition: | | \Ab`o*li"tion*ist\, n.
A person who favors the abolition of any institution,
especially negro slavery.
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