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Noun: abolitionist  ,a-bu'li-shu-nist
  1. A reformer who favours abolishing slavery
    "Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist in 19th-century America";
    - emancipationist

Derived forms: abolitionists

Type of: crusader, meliorist, reformer, reformist, social reformer

Encyclopedia: Abolitionist