abolitionist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/    美 /ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/|/ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.əst/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.; A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of slavery. US,especially,historical
    — 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 surname of a negro.
形容词 adj.
  1. In favor of the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
  2. In favor of the abolition of any particular institution or practice.; In favor of the abolition of slavery. historical
    — 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.

词形变化

more abolitionist comparative most abolitionist superlative abolitionists plural

词汇关系

近义词
woolly-head nigger lover
衍生词
antiabolitionist

词源

词源 1
First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.
词源 2
First attested in 1788. abolition + -ist.
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