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perpetualist|pəˈpɛtjuːəlɪst| [f. perpetual a. + -ist.] One who is in favour of the perpetuity of something; spec. a name applied in the U.S. to those who favoured the perpetuation of Negro slavery in the States.
1850Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. II. 97 Those slave-owners who are called perpetualists, who maintain that slavery should be permanent. 1872H. Wilson Hist. Slave Power I. 574 It was..a most potent weapon in the hands of the apologists, perpetualists, and propagandists of slavery. |