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abolitionist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun abolitionist has 1 sense
- abolitionist(n = noun.person) emancipationist - a reformer who favors abolishing slavery; Array is a kind of crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer
has particulars: beecher, henry ward beecher, brown, john brown, douglass, frederick douglass, garrison, william lloyd garrison, harriet beecher stowe, harriet elizabeth beecher stowe, stowe, arthur tappan, tappan, sojourner truth, truth, harriet tubman, tubman, theodore dwight weld, weld
Derived form noun abolitionism1
CIDE DICTIONARY
abolitionist, n.
A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
abolitionist, n. one who favours the abolition of a practice or institution, esp. of capital punishment or (formerly) of Negro slavery.
Derivative
abolitionism n.
ROGET THESAURUS
abolitionist
Abrogation
N abrogation, annulment, nullification, recision, vacatur, canceling, cancel, revocation, revokement, repeal, rescission, defeasance, dismissal, conge, demission, bounce, deposal, deposition, dethronement, disestablishment, disendowment, deconsecration, sack, walking papers, pink slip, walking ticket, yellow cover, abolition, abolishment, dissolution, counter order, countermand, repudiation, retraction, retractation, recantation, abolitionist, abrogated, functus officio, Int, get along with you!, begone!, go about your business!, away with!.
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