Sample Sentences for
abolition
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    The long fight for abolition finally achieved its goal in the 19th century.
    abolition = ending slavery
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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 practice
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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 subject of slavery was introduced because some of the counties, alarmed by the Nat Turner insurrection, had petitioned for the gradual emancipation of the slaves or for abolition of slavery.  (source)
    abolition = ending a system or practice
    standard 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)
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    We advocated the redivision of land on an equitable basis; the abolition of color bars prohibiting Africans from doing skilled work; and the need for free and compulsory education.  (source)
    abolition = ending a system or practice
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    Sometimes I think the Abolitionists have got the right idea.†  (source)
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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)
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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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    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)
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