Free-Silverism en · NOUN
Etymology
From free silver + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A movement advocating for free silver.
After resumption in 1879, when paper money did reach par with gold, the two bond rates remained very nearly equal for several years, until fears of inflation from Greenbackism and Free-Silverism again produced a divergence.
1930, Irving Fisher, The Theory of Interest: As Determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest It, New York: The MacMillan Company, page 401: