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immediatist|ɪˈmiːdɪətɪst|
[f. immediate + -ist.]
One who practises or advocates immediate action; spec. in U.S. Hist., one who advocated the immediate abolition of slavery.
1835H. G. Otis in Life of W. L. Garrison (1885) I. 500 [He (Otis)..denied that the Scriptures were anywhere opposed to slavery; repeated that Christ] ‘was not an immediatist’. 1852W. Goodell in Slavery & Freedom (1882) 424 Those who professed to be opposed to slavery, and..only deprecated the imprudent measures of the immediatists. 1888F. H. Stoddard in Andover Rev. Oct., The gospel of the Immediatist,—work while the day lasts. |