abolitionizev.
/ˌabəˈlɪʃn̩ʌɪz/, /ˌabəˈlɪʃənʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌæbəˈlɪʃəˌnaɪz/ U.S. Now historical and rare.
transitive. To imbue with the principles of abolitionism; to make (a person or community) opposed to slavery.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > set free [verb (transitive)] > from slavery > imbue with abolitionist principles
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1836 3rd Ann. Rep. Amer. Anti-slavery Soc. 87 It will purify the church; it will abolitionize southern travelers and residents in the North instead of permitting them to diffuse the power of slavery among us.
1842 J. Sturge Visit to U.S. in 1841 49 Appointing a sub-committee..whose duty will be to endeavour to abolitionize his sub-division.
1863 ‘S. L. Jones’ Life in South I. i. 3 Scheme of abolitionizing Virginia.
1870 W. M. Leftwich Martyrdom in Missouri 363 The only Northern Baptists not thoroughly abolitionized into corrupt political partisans were a few Churches in Ohio, Indiana, and Southern Illinois.
1930 A. W. Crandall Early Hist. Republican Party ii. vi. 114 An organized scheme to abolitionize the territory which Reeder's delay had made possible.
1962 New Eng. Q. 35 501 Next came wildly exaggerated rumors that a $5,000,000 Eastern corporation had recruited a horde of 20,000 Northern paupers to abolitionize Kansas, and drive out Southern settlers.
1992 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 58 534 A British plot to abolitionize first Texas and then the American South.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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