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emancipationist|ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃənɪst|
[f. prec. + -ist.]
An advocate for the setting free of slaves, and the abolition of slavery. Also, an advocate of the emancipation of any class from legal disabilities or the like. (First applied to the advocates of ‘Catholic Emancipation’: see emancipation 2 a.)
1822Southey in Life (1850) V. 112 The Emancipationists..and the Dissenters will not be pleased. 1828Q. Rev. XXXVIII. 557 To this point the emancipationists have..brought their vessel. 1859Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. xcviii. 87 Now is the time for the Emancipationists..to be up and doing. 1882T. Mozley Remin. I. iv, The..son of the great emancipationist [Wilberforce]. |