Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is in favor of or advocates the emancipation of slaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
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- noun An advocate of the
emancipation of slaves
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
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Examples
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But the 'emancipationist' sees this in a very different light.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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They have not yet found a comparable party of Iranians, however minuscule, to defend the theory of the emancipationist bombing of Iran.
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They have not yet found a comparable party of Iranians, however minuscule, to defend the theory of the emancipationist bombing of Iran.
David Bromwich: One More War, Please David Bromwich 2010
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Hell, what would the emancipationist think, who used to stand on the front porch of his Italianate home, his hands stained with newsprint after firing off another broadside round of anti-slavery screeds, surveying all the lands around him?
Driving directions 2010
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Before it was the home of the famous emancipationist, newspaper publisher, Minister to Russia, friend to Abraham Lincoln, founder of the Republican Party — it was the home of a Revolutionary War hero, and the home of many slaves.
Driving directions 2010
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The notion that Lee was an emancipationist, however, is complete nonsense.
Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President. Ann Althouse 2009
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Finally, albeit unwittingly, the women teachers of the Alliance consistently reframed the emancipationist ideology of French Jewry to reflect more accurately the needs of Jewish girls, especially those living in Muslim lands.
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But to call him an emancipationist when he voluntarily delayed freeing 200 slaves because it wasn't in HIS interests to do so is positively Orwellian.
Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President. Ann Althouse 2009
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Inkle and Yarico was a deliberately emancipationist work and its enormous popularity helped to mobilize the abolitionist cause led by Wilberforce. 6
Savage Boundaries 2002
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The main thrust of Blight's account details how reconciliationism accommodated itself to the white supremacist narrative, thereby marginalizing the emancipationist vision.
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