Crossword clues for prohibitionist
prohibitionist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prohibitionist \Pro`hi*bi"tion*ist\, 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.
Wiktionary
n. A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition; especially with the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
WordNet
n. a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages [syn: dry]
Usage examples of "prohibitionist".
Horace Henderson Wilcox, a Kansas prohibitionist, bought 120 acres near Los Angeles for his country home.
Baptist zeal, Methodist self-satisfaction, Presbyterian Scots certainty about everything, Anglican social superiority, and a horde of evangelists and back-street messiahs to suit every taste, as well as an undertow of prohibitionists, anti-tobacco crusaders, and warriors against prostitution, who were linked with the churches though not actually a part of them, seemed to dominate the mores of the city.
On one of those days when the anxiety was keenest and the sky darkest a delegation of prohibitionists came to him and insisted that the reason the north did not win was because the soldiers drank so much whiskey and thus brought the curse of the Lord down upon them.
The Town Marshal THE: Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man, Before I joined the church, I killed a Swede At the saw-mill near Maple Grove.
And they presented me with a loaded cane With which I struck Jack McGuire Before he drew the gun with which he killed The Prohibitionists spent their money in vain To hang him, for in a dream I appeared to one of the twelve jurymen And told him the whole secret story.
Republicans wanted to enfranchise blacks, prohibitionists wanted to enfranchise women, and Democrats want to enfranchise felons.
But tonight I visited the home of my friend X (a prominent prohibitionist, by the way) and turned as white as a blanched almond when I saw the nut-dish at his elbow.
The acid side of tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiols occur inversely to the amount of the plant's THC and is therefore more acceptable to prohibitionists because "it won't get you high.