| 词汇 | abolitionist |
| 释义 | abolitionist noun[ C ] uk /ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən.ɪst/ us /ˌæb.əˈlɪʃ.ən.ɪst/ a person who supports the abolition of something主张废除…的人，废除主义者 Forbidding and banning things abolish abolition anti-censorship ban bannable decertification decertify deny something to someone disallow disqualification off-limits out of boundsidiom outlaw prohibit prohibition unauthorized unkosher unsanctioned verboten veto Can an abolitionist consistently take office, or vote, under the Constitution of the United States? He spent some time there and in France, moving on a footing of honorable equality among the distinguished abolitionists of those countries. I am opposed to the abolitionists, because they trample under foot the Constitution and laws of their country. I told them I and several others on board were abolitionists. In fact, the majority of abolitionists were amazed and bewildered when war came because it was not being waged to free the slaves. Then soon I became an abolitionist and conscientiously refused to vote or accept citizenship under a constitution which ordered the return of fugitive slaves. What abolitionists feared far more than secession was that to save the Union some compromise would be made which would fasten slavery on the nation. What mockery to quote the letter of the law in those states, to show that abolitionists would have secured to them the legal protection of an impartial trial! abolitionist | American Dictionaryabolitionist noun[ C ] us/ˌæb·əˈlɪʃ·ə·nɪst/ US history a person who supported an end to slavery Examples of abolitionistabolitionist The abolitionist was, constitutionally speaking, neither officer nor prisoner and as a consequence may stand for the ordinary citizen - "society," the people at large. Yet, in many instances, these abolitionist judges dismissed the actions as legally insufficient. Some readers may miss ready recipes for abolitionist action by international lobby groups and donor organizations, or a critical analysis of their activities. They demonstrate above all the ambivalent attitude of the three abolitionists towards the use of violence. The following two chapters examine the responses of the three conventions and the wider abolitionist community to the addresses. In the last two chapters, he shows the gradual convergence of abolitionist factions in the late 1840s. I wonder, however, how much of a role such strategic constitutional thinking really played in the culmination of the radical abolitionist project. There were reasons other than cowardice or self-interest to resist abolitionist immediatism. The fundamentalists who want to ban all animal research do so from the non-negotiable position of the abolitionist. The decree was revoked in 1888 as a result of abolitionist protests, but new and similar regulations were issued soon after. As one might expect, he is far more successful, though not totally convincing, in illustrating the importance of liberal ideas to the abolitionists. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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