单词 | garrisonian |
释义 | † garrisoniann.1 Obsolete. One who lives in a fort or garrison-town.Apparently only in the writings of Anne Grant. ΚΠ 1773 A. Grant Let. 30 June in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 182 All the spirit that diverted you in my description of our garrisonians, is evaporated. 1786 A. Grant Let. 30 July in Lett. from Mountains (1806) III. 99 To return to the garrisonians. You can imagine no set of people more polished. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). Garrisonianadj.n.2 A. adj. Pertaining to W. L. Garrison, a leader in the American anti-slavery agitation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > relating to manumission > relating to anti-slavery agitator or group free soil1845 Garrisonian1863 1863 W. Phillips Speeches vi. 111 Garrisonian antislavery movement. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 30 June 490/2 The Garrisonian abolitionists. B. n.2 A follower or supporter of Garrison; an abolitionist. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > one seeking abolition of slavery abolitionist1791 Garrisonian1890 1890 C. Martyn Wendell Phillips 160 The Church..had accused the Garrisonians of infidelity. Derivatives ˈGarrisonism n. the anti-slavery principles of Garrison; abolitionism. ΚΠ 1848 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 125 Theodore Parker's letter..is full of Garrisonism from one end to the other. 1878 N. Amer. Rev. 127 98 The wires of Calhounism and Garrisonism were joined and the war began. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.11773adj.n.21848 |
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