abolitionists
UK/ˈæ.bə.lɪʃn̩.ɪsts/
abolitionists is the plural of abolitionist.
Meaning of abolitionist
Noun
abolitionist (plural abolitionists)
- A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
- Both feminist and religiously inspired abolitionists have long viewed, and continue to view, male demand for commercial sex as a root cause of prostitution.2005, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Children in the Global Sex Trade, Polity, →ISBN, page 107
- A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of slavery.
- Among other slave notabilities of the plantation, was one called by everybody Uncle Isaac Copper. It is seldom that a slave gets a surname from anybody in Maryland; and so completely has the south shaped the manners of the north, in this respect, that even abolitionists make very little of the...1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 3, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC
Questions about abolitionists
- What is abolitionists the plural of?
- Abolitionists is the plural of abolitionist.
- How do you pronounce abolitionists?
- Abolitionists is pronounced /ˈæ.bə.lɪʃn̩.ɪsts/ (UK).
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