immediatism
[ ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uh m ]
/ ɪˈmi di əˌtɪz əm /
noun U.S. History.
a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.
OTHER WORDS FROM immediatism
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Example sentences from the Web for immediatism
Their doctrine of immediatism—if we may invent a new term—is always one and the same, and always has been.
Abolition a Sedition |Geo. W. DonohueThese English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.
The Negro and the Nation |George S. MerriamGarrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.
William Lloyd Garrison |Archibald H. Grimke