prohibitionist
Americannoun
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a person who favors or advocates prohibition.
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(initial capital letter) a member of the Prohibition party.
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Origin of prohibitionist
First recorded in 1840–50; prohibition + -ist
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Prohibitionist papers provided clues along with old ads for ‘new and novel entertainment: talking motion pictures.”
From Washington Times • Mar. 23, 2018
In 1932, Hoover, the reluctant Prohibitionist, was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a reluctant anti-Prohibitionist; a year later, the country repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
In the meantime, many of the Prohibitionist leaders expressed an earnest—and characteristically Progressive—desire to help those who seemed, to them, insufficiently progressed.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015
But it was her student days, not her anti-saloon activities, that brought Prohibitionist Willard into the news last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Prohibitionist asserts that Scotland will be dry in five years.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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