Abolitionist

/ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/

Synonyms for "abolitionist" (11 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
emancipationistabolition advocateabolition campaigner

Strong matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
anti slavery advocateantislaveryantislavery activist

Related words (5)

Noun(5 words)
antislavery rhetoricemancipatorsnigger loverreform advocatewoolly-head

Related word relations

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More general

11 entries

More specific

7 entries
antislaveryantislavery rhetoriccorporal punishment abolitionistdeath penalty abolitionistfemale abolitionistmoral suasionunderground railroad abolitionist

Collocations

8 entries
abolitionist discourseabolitionist ideologyabolitionist leaderabolitionist literatureabolitionist movementabolitionist networksabolitionist rhetoricabolitionist society

Inflections

3 entries
abolitionistsmore abolitionistmost abolitionist

Derivations

3 entries

Translations

22 translations across 18 languages.

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Asturian

1 entries
  • abolicionista noun (person who favors the abolition)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • абаліцыяніст noun (person who favors the abolition)

Catalan

1 entries
  • abolicionista noun (person who favors the abolition)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries
  • 廢奴主義者 /废奴主义者 noun (person who favors the abolition)
  • 廢除主義者 /废除主义者 noun (person who favors the abolition)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 廢奴主義者 /废奴主义者 noun (person who favors the abolition)
  • 廢除主義者 /废除主义者 noun (person who favors the abolition)

Dutch

1 entries
  • abolitionist noun (person who favors the abolition)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • aboliciisto noun (person who favors the abolition)

Finnish

1 entries
  • abolitionisti noun (person who favors the abolition)

French

1 entries
  • abolitionniste noun (person who favors the abolition)

Galician

1 entries
  • abolicionista noun (person who favors the abolition)

Italian

1 entries
  • abolizionista noun (person who favors the abolition)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • abolisjonist noun (person who favors the abolition)

Polish

2 entries
  • abolicjonista noun (person who favors the abolition)
  • abolicjonistka noun (person who favors the abolition)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • abolicionista noun (person who favors the abolition)

Romanian

1 entries
  • aboliționist noun (person who favors the abolition)

Russian

1 entries
  • аболиционист noun (person who favors the abolition)

Spanish

1 entries
  • abolicionista noun (person who favors the abolition)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • аболіціоніст noun (person who favors the abolition)
  • аболіціоністка noun (person who favors the abolition)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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He was not an abolitionist.

Source: tatoeba (802975)

Of necessity, as well as of choice, I am a "Garrisonian" Abolitionist—the most unpopular appellation that any man can have applied to him, in the present state of public sentiment; yet, I am more than confident, destined ultimately to be honourably regarded by the wise and good.

Source: tatoeba (11608510)

This case, and others, drove and enlarged the existing abolitionist movement in the country, opposed, of course, by the merchants and plantation owners who were making a massive profit from the slaves held in various colonies.

Source: wiktionary

Both feminist and religiously inspired abolitionists have long viewed, and continue to view, male demand for commercial sex as a root cause of prostitution.

Source: wiktionary

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