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ABOLITIONIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A reformer who favors abolishing slavery

Synonyms:

abolitionist; emancipationist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("abolitionist" is a kind of...):

crusader; meliorist; reformer; reformist; social reformer (a disputant who advocates reform)

Instance hyponyms:

Beecher; Henry Ward Beecher (United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887))

Brown; John Brown (abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1859))

Douglass; Frederick Douglass (United States abolitionist who escaped from slavery and became an influential writer and lecturer in the North (1817-1895))

Garrison; William Lloyd Garrison (United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879))

Harriet Beecher Stowe; Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe; Stowe (United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896))

Arthur Tappan; Tappan (United States abolitionist (1786-1865))

Sojourner Truth; Truth (United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883))

Harriet Tubman; Tubman (United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913))

Theodore Dwight Weld; Weld (United States abolitionist (1803-1895))

Derivation:

abolitionism (the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery)

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