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

Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.

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

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Their doctrine of immediatism—if we may invent a new term—is always one and the same, and always has been.

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

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