abolitionaryadj.

1823 Times 27 Dec. 4/2 (advt.) An impartial review of the question pending between Great Britain and her West Indian Colonies, respecting the abolition of negro slavery; humbly submitted..to William Wilberforce, Esq., and all his Abolitionary Friends.

1841 Southern Literary Messenger May 408/1 The democratic party..indirectly threatened the Anglo-American Union by the rebound of its abolitionary policy.

1859 J. Redpath Roving Editor 118 If slavery had no other evils, the fact that it separates families, forever,..would make me an abolitionary insurrectionist.

1868 A. Boboruikin in Fortn. Rev. New Ser. 4 133 If he is a Nihilist, he should profess exclusively negative and abolitionary doctrines.

1933 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 2 180/2 The first lukewarm stirrings of abolitionary sentiment in the South were chilled with Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin at the close of the 18th Century.

1976 Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gaz. 23 Feb. 4/7 The so-called cold war ensued as a contest over conditions of peace with a rival power of hard abolitionary persuasion.

1996 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 4 July If Ashmun was motivated by the Bangor abolitionary and religious community to spend most of his short adult life preparing to accompany freed slaves to the ‘dark continent’ [etc.].