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Prohibitionist

noun

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

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"Prohibitionist" Quotes from Famous Books

... as became a debutante so did Judge Drinkwater, who stood near by, frowning upon the scene, he being a Prohibitionist. ...

— Ptomaine Street • Carolyn Wells

... is a very hasty inference. It was no part of Defoe's art as a controversialist to seek to correct popular prejudices; on the contrary, it was his habit to take them for granted as the bases of his arguments, to work from them as premisses towards his conclusion. He expressly avowed himself a prohibitionist ...

— Daniel Defoe • William Minto

... 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

... The prohibitionist in America would probably insist that she keep a soda fountain or a woman's exchange; but no other alterations would be needed to get the play over the footlights in any English speaking town on ...

— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White

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