Associations to the word «Slaveholding»

Wiktionary

SLAVEHOLDING, adjective. Having possession/ownership of one or more slaves.
SLAVEHOLDING, noun. An owning of one or more slaves.

Dictionary definition

SLAVEHOLDING, noun. The practice of owning slaves.
SLAVEHOLDING, adjective. Allowing slavery; "the slaveholding South".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats