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antirum en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + rum.

Meanings

1. Opposing the drinking of rum.
   • Their politics amount to no more than the division between the rum and the antirum parties[…] 1987, Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady, On Mark Twain, page 147:
   • Those who had internalized that ethic and had linked it with the prohibitory cause were responsive to the antirum, antiparty pronouncements of their religious conferences. 1979, Paul Kleppner, The Third Electoral System 1853-1892, volume 2, page 256:

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