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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

... N. sobriety; teetotalism. temperance &c. 953. water-drinker; hydropot|!; prohibitionist; teetotaler, teetotalist; abstainer, Good Templar, band of hope. V. take the pledge. Adj. sober, sober ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

... not. Willard was the loser, and naturally them Broadway fight fans didn't have no sympathy with a loser, so even if there hadn't been no European war for Willard not to serve in, Mawruss, they would of tried to think of some other name to shout at him as he staggered out of the ring, like Prohibitionist or League-of-Nationer." ...

— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass

... there, and perhaps a couple of hundred more questions; and when they got aground, I went right on and furnished them a lot of information voluntarily; told them I owned a dog, and his name was Watch, and my first wife was a Free Will Baptist, and her grandfather was a Prohibitionist, and I used to know a man who had two thumbs on each hand and a wart on the inside of his upper lip, and died in the hope of a glorious resurrection, and so on, and so on, and so on, till even that hungry village ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... alcohol in his practice. And perhaps other bearings have prevented her from seeing that the republican pressure has injured our work more than anything else in Kansas. Many of the wives of these political wire-pullers are prominent in the Union. A W. C. T. U. must of necessity be a prohibitionist, for her pledge is a prohibition pledge, ...

— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation

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