Meaning

2 senses
  1. A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.

  2. A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.

    (US, especially, historical)A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of slavery.

    аболиционистabolicionist

    аболіціоністabolicionist, аболіціоністкаabolicionistka

More definitions
  • a reformer who favors abolishing slavery

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Abolitionists believed slavery was evil, and that there could be no compromise with evil.

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  2. He was not an abolitionist.

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  3. Many abolitionists in 19th-century America were of German descent.

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Translations

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Origin

First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.

First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.

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Forms

plural: abolitionists
Singularabolitionist
Pluralabolitionists

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Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words

See also

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