proslavery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.67 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "By 1835 the excitement was at its height, and especially along the line of the moral and religious argumentation, where the proslavery men met talk with talk."
- "When it seemed later that the cause of freedom would eventually triumph the proslavery element undertook to perpetuate slavery through a system of indentured servant labor."
- "His proslavery views were shaped not only by money and status but also by his deeply racist views, which he tried to justify through pseudoscience."
- "The old wisdom that southerners rose up in unison in 1831 after a decade of preparation in the tenets of proslavery is patently an erroneous interpretation."
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
more proslavery (comparative)
most proslavery (superlative)