Word Meanings - EMANCIPATIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.

Related words: (words related to EMANCIPATIONIST)

• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• EMANCIPATIONIST
  An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.
• EMANCIPATION
  The act of setting free from the power of another, from slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of
• ADVOCATESHIP
  Office or duty of an advocate.
• SUBADVOCATE
  An under or subordinate advocate.