immediatismn.
/ɪˈmiːdɪətɪz(ə)m/ 1. The principle or practice of immediate action; formerly, in U.S. History, applied to the policy of the immediate abolition of slavery.
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the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [noun] > principle of immediate action
immediatism1835
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from slavery > abolition of slavery > principles of
abolitionism1807
immediatism1835
free-soilism1848
man-and-brotherism1865
1835 H. G. Otis in Liberator V. 144 They [abolitionists] have enriched the nomenclature with a new word, immediatism. This..is the opposite of gradualism, another new coinage.
1880 O. Johnson W. L. Garrison 45 Mr. Garrison had learned the doctrine of immediatism from Dr. Beecher.
2. The quality of being immediate; immediateness, immediacy.
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a1825 D. Stewart cited by Worcester.
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