[Ads-l] Antedating of "Prohibitionism"

[Mark Mandel]

Is "horizaontalism" a typo? Whether it is or not, what does it mean?

MAM

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022, 7:30 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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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