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Proto-Indo-European *h2ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h2epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin ab der.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *h3elh1-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *h3olh1-éye-ti
Proto-Italic *oleō
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Latin aboleō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Old French abolucion
Middle French abolition bor.
English abolition
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English abolitionism

    From abolition + -ism .

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    abolitionism (countable and uncountable , plural abolitionisms )

    1. Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists. [First attested in the early 19th century.][1]
      • 1991, Willem de Haan, "Abolitionism and Crime Control", in Kevin Martin Stenson, David Cowell, The Politics of Crime Control, SAGE (→ISBN), page 203:
        Abolitionism is based on the moral conviction that social life should not and, in fact, cannot be regulated effectively by criminal law [...]. As a social movement committed to the abolition of the prison or even the entire penal system, abolitionism originated in campaigns for prisoners' rights and penal reform.
      • 2006, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 6:
        Abolitionism is still a powerful philosophy among contemporary feminists, both in the West and in the developing world.
      1. Support for the abolition of prisons.
        • 2002, David Levinson, Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, SAGE, →ISBN, page 1:
          ABOLITIONISM
          Prisons and jails have been condemned, at least by some, for as long as they have existed. [...] In the United States, the most profound statement of support for abolitionism is the document Instead of Prisons [...] Abolitionism has also given emphasis to didferent strategies for change, ranging from simply abolishing prisons to abolishing the entire criminal justice apparatus, [...]
      2. Support for the abolition (banning) of sex work.
        • 2006 January 1, Melissa Hope Ditmore, Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 4:
          Abolitionism is a term that refers to a particular ideological and legal approach to prostitution. The approach has its roots in 19th-century feminism and is still a potent force [...] Thus abolitionism arose as a movement against the state regulation of prostitution. The leader of the abolitionist movement was Josephine Butler, [...]
      3. (abortion) Support for the abolition (banning) of abortion.[2]
    2. (historical , especially US ) Support for the abolition of slavery.

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    opinion in favor of the abolition of something

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    1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), "abolitionism", in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles , 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
    2. ^ Dias, Elizabeth (1 July 2022), "Inside the Extreme Effort to Punish Women for Abortion", in New York Times‎[1] , The New York Times, retrieved 2022-August-24

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    abolition +‎ -ism

    Noun

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    abolitionism c

    1. abolitionism

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