Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To imbue with the doctrines or principles of abolitionists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To imbue with the principles of abolitionism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, rare, obsolete To
imbue with the principles ofabolitionism .
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Examples
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The fact of separation on the ground supposed, would abolitionize the whole
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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It was here that Douglas hoping to fasten on Lincoln the stigma of "abolitionist," charged him with having undertaken to abolitionize the old Whig party, and having been in 1854 a subscriber to a radical platform proclaimed at Springfield.
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Lincoln went to work to abolitionize the old Whig party all over the State, pretending that he was then as good a Whig as ever; and Trumbull went to work in his part of the State preaching abolitionism in its milder and lighter form, and trying to abolitionize the Democratic party, and bring old Democrats handcuffed and bound hand and foot into the Abolition camp.
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These two men having formed this combination to abolitionize the old Whig party and the old Democratic party, and put themselves into the Senate of the United States, in pursuance of their bargain, are now carrying out that arrangement.
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Page 275 abolitionize the State than any previous or subsequent work.
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It will abolitionize the Border Slave States -- it will brand our institution.
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The slave-trade between the States is to be abolished, thereby preventing the exportation of slaves from the old Southern States, until their increase shall become an evil, and compel their emancipation, and thus abolitionize those States.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi. Called Session, January, 1861 Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives 1861
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Lincoln went to work to abolitionize the Old Whig party all over the State, pretending that he was then as good a Whig as ever; and Trumbull went to work in his part of the State preaching Abolitionism in its milder and lighter form, and trying to abolitionize the Democratic party, and bring old
Douglas Debate (Audio performance by Max Daniels and Jim Gayan) 1858
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These two men having formed this combination to abolitionize the old Whig party and the old Democratic party, and put themselves into the Senate of the Untied States, in pursuance of their bargain, are now carrying out that arrangement.
Douglas Debate (Audio performance by Max Daniels and Jim Gayan) 1858
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I do not say how far this war may or may not abolitionize her Northern Dioceses, or may or may not have done so already.
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