Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
1991, Willem de Haan, "Abolitionism and Crime Control", in Kevin Martin Stenson, David Cowell, The Politics of Crime Control, SAGE (), page 203:
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(historical, US) Support for the abolition of slavery.
: Abolitionism is based on the moral conviction that social life should not and, in fact, cannot be regulated effectively by criminal law [...]. As a social movement committed to the abolition of the prison or even the entire penal syste…
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