- 1廢除論者；歷史課裡多半指廢奴主義者
An abolitionist is someone who wants a law or a system to be officially ended. In history, the word most often points to people who fought to end slavery. Today it can also mean someone who wants to end the death penalty or another institution they believe should not exist. It is usually a noun: she is an abolitionist. It can also work as an adjective: abolitionist ideas, the abolitionist movement. Though actually, it is not a general word for anyone who dislikes a rule or skips a class. It names a stance: this thing should not exist any more, and I will work to end it. The system they want ended is the target of abolition; the verb for the act is .
組成abolition（廢除）+ -ist（抱那種主張、做那種事的人）。1788 年起如此構成。
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
abolitionistadj/ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/
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In favor of the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
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historicalIn favor of the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
- This case, and others, drove and enlarged the existing abolitionist movement in the country, opposed, of course, by the merchants and plantation owners who were making a massive profit from the slaves held in various colonies.
abolitionistnoun/ˌæ.bəˈlɪʃ.n̩.ɪst/
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A person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
- Both feminist and religiously inspired abolitionists have long viewed, and continue to view, male demand for commercial sex as a root cause of prostitution.
- Furthermore, abolitionists argue that prisons are a form of violence and should be destroyed because they reflect “a social ethos of violence and degradation" [...] Abolitionists argue that prisons should be replaced, or at least decentralized, by democratic community control and community-based treatment that would emphasize "redress" or "restorative justice."
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historicalA person favoring or advocating for the abolition of any particular institution or practice.
- Among other slave notabilities of the plantation, was one called by everybody Uncle Isaac Copper. It is seldom that a slave gets a surname from anybody in Maryland; and so completely has the south shaped the manners of the north, in this respect, that even abolitionists make very little of the surname of a negro.
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