单词 | slavite |
释义 | slaviten.adj. U.S. Now historical and rare. A. n. An advocate, upholder, or supporter of the institution of slavery. Cf. slavist n.1After c1870, apparently only in direct quotation of, or more-or-less direct reference to, 19th cent. use with reference to slavery in the southern United States before the end of the Civil War (1861–5). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > system or institution > one who favours or upholds slavite1831 perpetualist1847 slavist1889 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies > adherents or supporters of well-born1629 liberty boy1766 federalist1787 anti1788 Fed1788 monocrat1792 anti-federal1805 blue light1814 dough face1820 colonizationist1823 slavite1831 hunker1849 states' righter1861 slavist1889 Little American1899 New Frontiersman1923 America Firster1927 new federalist1969 angry white male1991 angry white man1993 AWM1994 1825 Genius of Universal Emancipation (Baltimore) 24 Dec. 134/1 I would ask, who has the nobler soul, that proud slavite, or the despised female slave? 1871 H. R. Helper Noonday Exigencies in Amer. 211/2 (index) White Slavites living with negroes. 2016 C. Fitz Our Sister Republics vi. 224 Much the same could have been said of the administration, of course, but the ‘slavites’ had started it. They had provoked and then pushed the racialized line of debate. That advocates, upholds, or supports the institution of slavery. Obsolete. Π 1826 Genius Universal Emancipation 29 Apr. 275/1 We are told this is not that right time;..that if we attempt to do any thing now we shall array all the slavite population against us. 1863 Scioto (Chillichote, Ohio) Gaz. 24 Mar. This stigma upon our good name gains credit abroad by the fierce opposition of the slavite faction among us, to the war, and especially to the emancipation measure of our Republican government. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.adj.1825 |
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