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Prohibitionist

noun
1.
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages.  Synonym: dry.






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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



Words linked to "Prohibitionist" :   reformist, reformer, prohibition, dry, Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, crusader, social reformer, Carry Nation, meliorist, nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation, Willard



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