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The abolition of slavery in the United States was officially achieved with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.abolition = ending the system or practice
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She joined the abolition movement and worked to support the Underground Railroad.abolition = ending of slavery
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She supports abolition of the death penalty.abolition = ending of a system or policy
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The long fight for abolition finally achieved its goal in the 19th century.abolition = ending slavery
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"Henry Ward Beecher was, of course, the nineteenth-century abolitionist—and fiery sermonizer for human rights—after whom this school was named," Mr. Tushman was saying when I started paying attention again. (source)abolitionist = a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
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The abolition of the Vatican is nonnegotiable. (source)abolition = elimination of the institution
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They also fought for the abolition of slavery and for a more humane treatment of criminals. (source)abolition = ending a system or practicestandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Abolitionists were becoming hopeful that more profound death penalty reform or possibly a moratorium might be achievable. (source)Abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
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Enough to answer one more preacher, one more abolitionist and a town full of disgust. (source)abolitionist = a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
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Merely to insist that slavery was an evil would sound like abolitionism and offend the Negrophobes.† (source)abolitionism = the belief that slavery should be abolished
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'" Not all antiabolitionist soldiers experienced such a conversion.† (source)antiabolitionist = against "abolitionist"
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The "Centenary" was a reference to the fact that the scholarship was established one hundred years after the abolition of slavery in Jamaica. (source)abolition = ending a system or practice of
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Suppose I kept a fine stallion in one of my fields, and suddenly one of your Northern abolitionists came up and insisted I should free it.† (source)abolitionists = reformers who favored ending slavery
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Now that particular body of water is significant in the novel, separating as it does slaveholding Kentucky from abolitionist Ohio. (source)abolitionist = opposed to slavery
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But Wilberforce joined after abolitionism was well under way, and the public wasn't stirred solely by Wilberforce's eloquence.† (source)abolitionism = the belief that slavery should be abolished
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Independence from Spain and then the abolition of slavery precipitated the conditions of honorable decadence in which Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been born and raised. (source)abolition = ending a system or practice
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