[f. ABOLITION 1 b. + -ISM.] The principles or measures of abolitionists; opposition to negro slavery.
1808. Wilberforce, Lett. to Wm. Smith, in Life (1838), III. xxii. 385. With a view to having the Spanish deputies well impregnated with Abolitionism.
1853. Mary Howitt, trans. Bremer’s Homes of New World, III. 344. Violent abolitionism is more and more giving place to a nobler and calmer spirit.
1860. Sat. Rev., No. 255. 340/2. Even in the Free States Abolitionism is not quite safe.
