Definitions for abolitionist

abolitionist ab·o·li·tion·ist

Spelling: [ab-uh-lish-uh-nist]
IPA: /ˌæb əˈlɪʃ ə nɪst/

Abolitionist is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 670 anagrams from letters in abolitionist (abiiilnoostt).

Definitions for abolitionist

noun

  1. (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
  2. a person who favors the abolition of any law or practice deemed harmful to society:

Origin of abolitionist

First recorded in 1830-40; abolition + -ist

Examples for abolitionist

Until the 1830s, free blacks were barred from most abolitionist societies.

Free black Americans, he insists, played the crucial role of bringing British abolitionist pressure to bear on America.

The abolitionist charges the slave-holder with being a man-stealer.

An abolitionist was something to despise, to stone out of the community.

Some of them he knew, and they took Jamie for an abolitionist, but Jamie hardly knew what it was all about.

As Brookhiser fully appreciates—he does not equivocate or run from the truth—Lincoln was no radical, no abolitionist.

That woman, an island hero, Betto Douglas, may have been a relative of the famous American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.

Because of her reputation as an abolitionist, she had much resistance to overcome in the South.

I saw her coming out of that abolitionist meeting yesterday.

There was scarcely such a thing in 1789 as an "abolitionist."

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