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Definition of Emancipationist
1. Noun. A reformer who favors abolishing slavery.
Generic synonyms: Crusader, Meliorist, Reformer, Reformist, Social Reformer
Specialized synonyms: Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, Brown, John Brown, Douglass, Frederick Douglass, Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Stowe, Arthur Tappan, Tappan, Sojourner Truth, Truth, Harriet Tubman, Tubman, Theodore Dwight Weld, Weld
Derivative terms: Abolitionism, Emancipation
Definition of Emancipationist
1. n. An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
Definition of Emancipationist
1. Noun. An advocate of the emancipation of slaves ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emancipationist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emancipationist
Literary usage of Emancipationist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Choice Literature: A Monthly Magazine (1885)
"... appears to have been emancipationist. That he made war on the Dutch to wrest
from them Colonial empire is a view not in accordance with the facts. ..."
2. The Unitarian: A Monthly Magazine of Liberal Christianity edited by Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott (1890)
"I refer to that sentiment which made him an emancipationist—an emancipationist
in the midst of slavery in Kentucky, an emancipationist when it was not ..."
3. The Methodist Review (1835)
"In brief, the proposition of the emancipationist is, to induce the southerner
... If the emancipationist have any means of peaceably inducing the southerner ..."
4. An Address Delivered Before the Middletown Colonization Society: At Their by Daniel Denison Whedon (1834)
"In brief, the proposition of the emancipationist is, to induce the Southerner
... If the Emancipationist have any means of peaceably inducing the Southerner ..."
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