HENRY WARD BEECHER

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• HENRY WARD BEECHER (noun)
  The noun HENRY WARD BEECHER has 1 sense:

1. United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)

  Familiarity information: HENRY WARD BEECHER used as a noun is very rare.

• HENRY WARD BEECHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Beecher; Henry Ward Beecher

Instance hypernyms:

abolitionist; emancipationist (a reformer who favors abolishing slavery)

clergyman; man of the cloth; reverend (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

 Context examples 

Your eyes flashed across to the unframed portrait of Henry Ward Beecher which stands upon the top of your books.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)