How To Use Teetotalism In A Sentence
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With the growth of the movement came a more radical agenda of teetotalism and a concerted campaign to end the state's liquor licensing system through local option legislation and eventually state prohibition in the 1850s.
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Prohibition—the legislated imposition of teetotalism on the unwilling—was an idea that had been lurking beneath the earnest pieties of the temperance movement and was transformed in the late 1840s into a rallying cry.
LAST CALL
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It was formed in 1901 as part of the Temperance Movement a series of Victorian religious and political pressure groups advocating teetotalism.
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Personally, as I grow older, I tend more toward my mother's teetotalism and away from my father's moderate drinking.
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I have not seen the quite simple objection to the causes advocated by certain wealthy idealists; causes of which the cause called teetotalism is the strongest case.
All Things Considered
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Our teetotaler owner - captain was laughed at, and sneered at, by all of us because of his teetotalism.
Chapter 16
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They supported teetotalism, as they knew very well that alcohol abuse was very much a source of bad family life back then.
Mikandra: I agree and I don't agree
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One reason for the multiplicity of groups was a difference of opinion which soon emerged between the advocates of moderation in drinking and those who demanded total abstinence - or teetotalism.
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It is of no avail to preach temperance and teetotalism to these people.
DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT
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Or here as an an argument against teetotalism (though since the book was printed by the Scottish Temperance League, probably not intended as a successful one): Fire is a dangerous thing, abused.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Government Is Not Reason, It Is Not Eloquence — It Is Force”
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Not the least of these differences was the generous supply of alcohol in one and the teetotalism of the other.
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Then he let me exonerate Harold from the charge of intemperance, pointing out that not even after the injury and operation, nor after yesterday's cold and fatigue, had he touched any liquor; but I don't think the notion of teetotalism was gratifying, even when I called it
My Young Alcides
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Not only did he fail to campaign vigorously for election, said Twain, but Orion also sealed his electoral doom when he suddenly changed from a friendly attitude toward whiskey—which was the popular attitude—to uncompromising teetotalism, and went absolutely dry. . .
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
