[Ads-l] Antedating of "Prohibitionism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

prohibitionism (OED 1882)

1844 _Port-Gibson_ (Miss.) _Herald_ 3 Oct. 2/5 (Newspapers.com)  Steering the even tenor of its way between prohibitionism on the one hand and horizaontalism on the other.

1854 _Monmouth Democrat) (Freehold, N.J.) 19 Oct. 2/2 (Newspapers.com)  There was more drunkenness in our State after the first paroxysm of prohibitionism, than before.

Fred Shapiro

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