immediatism

[ ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uhm ]

noun

, U.S. History.

1. a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.

Other Words From

• im·medi·a·tist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of immediatism¹

First recorded in 1815–25; immediate + -ism

Example Sentences

He favoured immediatism, but he differed sharply from the Garrisonian abolitionists, who abhorred the federal Constitution and favoured secession.

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These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.

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They were all his, but there was another besides—immediatism.

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"The spirits of the little company" may have risen superior to the weather, but they did not rise superior to the preamble, with the principle of immediatism incorporated in it.

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A few deemed that ground too radical and revolutionary, and were for ranging themselves under the banner of Gradualism, thinking to draw to their ranks a class of people, who would be repelled by Immediatism.

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