abolitionize

abolitionize
/ab'euh lish"euh nuyz'/, v.t., abolitionized, abolitionizing. (esp. prior to the Civil War)
to convert (persons, a region, a state, etc.) to abolitionism.
Also, esp. Brit., abolitionise.
[1835-45; Amer.; ABOLITION + -IZE]

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