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单词 abolitionist
释义
abolitionist
noun[C]
uk
/ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən.ɪst/us
/ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən.ɪst/
apersonwhosupportstheabolitionof something
主张废除…的人，废除主义者
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Forbidding and banning things
  • abolish
  • abolition
  • anti-censorship
  • ban
  • bannable
  • debar
  • decertification
  • decertify
  • deny
  • disallow
  • disqualification
  • off-limits
  • out of boundsidiom
  • outlaw
  • prohibit
  • prohibition
  • unauthorized
  • unkosher
  • verboten
  • veto
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(Definition ofabolitionistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • Can an abolitionist consistently take office, or vote, under the Constitution of the United States?
  • He spent some time there and in France, moving on a footing of honorable equality among the distinguished abolitionists of those countries.
  • I am opposed to the abolitionists, because they trample under foot the Constitution and laws of their country.
  • I told them I and several others on board were abolitionists.
  • In fact, the majority of abolitionists were amazed and bewildered when war came because it was not being waged to free the slaves.
  • Then soon I became an abolitionist and conscientiously refused to vote or accept citizenship under a constitution which ordered the return of fugitive slaves.
  • What abolitionists feared far more than secession was that to save the Union some compromise would be made which would fasten slavery on the nation.
  • What mockery to quote the letter of the law in those states, to show that abolitionists would have secured to them the legal protection of an impartial trial!

abolitionist| American Dictionary

abolitionist
noun[C]
us
/ˌæb·əˈlɪʃ·ə·nɪst/
US history
apersonwhosupportedan end toslavery
(Definition ofabolitionistfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabolitionist

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Theabolitionistwas, constitutionally speaking, neither officer nor prisoner and as a consequence may stand for the ordinary citizen - "society," the people at large.
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Yet, in many instances, theseabolitionistjudges dismissed the actions as legally insufficient.
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Some readers may miss ready recipes forabolitionistaction by international lobby groups and donor organizations, or a critical analysis of their activities.
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They demonstrate above all the ambivalent attitude of the three abolitionists towards the use of violence.
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The following two chapters examine the responses of the three conventions and the widerabolitionistcommunity to the addresses.
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In the last two chapters, he shows the gradual convergence ofabolitionistfactions in the late 1840s.
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I wonder, however, how much of a role such strategic constitutional thinking really played in the culmination of the radicalabolitionistproject.
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There were reasons other than cowardice or self-interest to resistabolitionistimmediatism.
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The fundamentalists who want to ban all animal research do so from the non-negotiable position of theabolitionist.
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The decree was revoked in 1888 as a result ofabolitionistprotests, but new and similar regulations were issued soon after.
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As one might expect, he is far more successful, though not totally convincing, in illustrating the importance of liberal ideas to the abolitionists.
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