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noun

Prohibitionist n.

One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist.

One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

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Etymology of 'Prohibitionist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Prohibitionist" Quotes from Famous Books

... his practice on the ground of neatness and common-sense. Lapham put his napkin into his collar too, and then, seeing that no one but Bellingham did it, became alarmed and took it out again slyly. He never had wine on his table at home, and on principle he was a prohibitionist; but now he did not know just what to do about the glasses at the right of his plate. He had a notion to turn them all down, as he had read of a well-known politician's doing at a public dinner, to show that he did not take wine; but, after ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... weekly paper, "there is a daisy which is often mistaken for a sheep by the shepherds." This is the sort of statement that the Prohibitionist likes to ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, October 6, 1920 • Various

... served as a delegate to the national convention of 1880. After a number of newspaper ventures he became the editor of the Kansas Farmer of Topeka in 1880 and continued in that position until he was elected to the United States Senate. He was a member of the Knights of Labor and was an ardent prohibitionist and, above all, an ...

— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck