abolitionist

Speech parts

1. abolitionist - Noun

2. abolitionist - Adjective

Meaning

A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

emancipationist crusader death resister execution opponent revolutionary advocate elimination abolition follower reformer reformist protester abolitionism
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Antonyms

carper challenger cynic knocker attacker atheist
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Hypernyms

crusader reformer reformist meliorist social reformer

Examples

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist. Abraham Lincoln

Critiques of the prison industrial complex undertaken by abolitionist activists and scholars are very much linked to critiques of the global persistence of racism. Antiracist and other social justice movements are incomplete with attention to the politics of imprisonment. Angela Davis

I am not a copyright reformer. I am a copyright abolitionist. Nina Paley

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible. Ava DuVernay

The Abolitionist... must see that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means and suasion. Robert E. Lee

If Washington or Jefferson or Madison should utter upon his native soil today the opinions he entertained and expressed upon this question, he would be denounced as a fanatical abolitionist. George William Curtis

Close letter words and terms

abolitiondom abolitionise abolitionism abolitionistic abolitionize abolla