immediatism

[ ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, U.S. History.

First recorded in 1815–25; immediate + -ism

Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.

These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.

Their doctrine of immediatism—if we may invent a new term—is always one and the same, and always has been.

They were all his, but there was another besides—immediatism.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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