monometallism
noun
the use of one metal only, as gold or silver, as a monetary standard.
monometallist
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a word derived from
monometallism.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Leonard H. Courtney, one of the monometallist members of that commission who signed the report, has since become an avowed bimetallist, as have many other prominent Englishmen.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
Indeed, every monometallist ought also to be a monoculist.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
Indeed I do," said I; "he has promised to print my essay on the nebular hypothesis of Professor Lecouvrier as soon as his contract with the monometallist college professors expires.
From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Eugene Field
And all this, the monometallist tells us, because there has been an excess of silver produced amounting to less than a quarter of a billion in twenty-three years.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
Hon. Robert Giffen, the well-known chief of the statistical department of the Board of Trade, London, was long known as the most determined and uncompromising monometallist in England.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
