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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

... I am not a prohibitionist. My position is just this: If we vote prohibition in Iowa, the government has no business to license men to sell contrary ...

— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland

... a great asset now. You're a "reformed" radical. Why, Will, he'll use you in the capitals of Europe to advertise his liberalism; just as the prohibitionist exhibits a ...

— The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays • Various

... colored people defeated prohibition, was not true. One pastor reported that his county went almost solidly against prohibition, and there was only one colored man in the county, so far as he knew, and he was a staunch prohibitionist. Some argued that while so many churches and Women's Christian Temperance Unions and Young Men's Christian Associations shut out respectable colored people, and saloons welcomed those who were not respectable, it would be a difficult task for the ...

— The American Missionary - Volume 42, No. 2, February 1888 • Various

... were to rouse the preventive prohibitionist in the soul of Mrs. Pembrose. There was the visiting of one another's rooms and cubicles. Most of these young people had never possessed or dreamt of possessing a pretty and presentable apartment to themselves, ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells