Definitions for abolitionists

abolitionists ab·o·li·tion·ist

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

Abolitionists is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 799 anagrams from letters in abolitionists (abiiilnoosstt).

Definitions for abolitionists

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

Origin of abolitionists

First recorded in 1830-40; abolition + -ist

Examples for abolitionists

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."

Every little while, I could hear something about the abolitionists.

If California dumps the death penalty this November, abolitionists will probably dance in the streets.

The abolitionists of the North have been grossly misrepresented.

For He put it into the hearts of abolitionists to make the arrest.

The position of Christian abolitionists was the exact opposite.

Until Haiti, abolitionists focused on either gradual emancipation, or simply ending the slave trade, not slavery itself.

I will not cite the declarations of abolitionists; for these you might pronounce exaggerations.

For abolitionists, it is about the possibility that even people who do something horrible can change.

But the consequence of ignoring him is that abolitionists seem indifferent to his pain.

abolitionists were sharply divided in this presidential campaign.

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