| 单词 |
immediatism |
| 释义 |
immediatism|ɪˈmiːdɪətɪz(ə)m| [as next + -ism.] 1. The principle or practice of immediate action; formerly, in U.S. Hist., applied to the policy of the immediate abolition of slavery.
1835H. 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. 1880O. Johnson Garrison 45 Mr. Garrison had learned the doctrine of immediatism from Dr. Beecher. 2. The quality of being immediate; immediateness, immediacy.
a1825D. Stewart cited by Worcester. |

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