antirum
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]antirum (comparative more antirum, superlative most antirum)
- Opposing the drinking of rum.
- 1979, Paul Kleppner, The Third Electoral System 1853-1892, volume 2, page 256:
- 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.
- 1987, Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady, On Mark Twain, page 147:
- Their politics amount to no more than the division between the rum and the antirum parties […]