abolitionist vs opposition

abolitionist

noun
  • A person who favors the abolition of any particular institution or practice. 

  • A person who favored or advocated the abolition of slavery. 

adj
  • In favor of the abolition of slavery. 

opposition

noun
  • A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power. 

  • The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate. 

  • In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent. 

  • The action of opposing or of being in conflict. 

  • The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth. 

  • An opposite or contrasting position. 

  • A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king. 

How often have the words abolitionist and opposition occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )