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Noun: abolitionist  `a-bu'li-shu-nist
  1. A reformer who favours abolishing slavery
    - emancipationist

Derived forms: abolitionists

See also: abolitionism

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

Encyclopedia: Abolitionist