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anticircus

anticircus adjective: opposing circuses.

Adjective

anticircus (comparative more anticircus, superlative most anticircus)

  1. Opposing circuses.
    • In some communities it was customary for ministers and priests to preach anticircus sermons in all churches on the Sunday preceding the circus.1974, Edwin Hardin Sutherland, Donald Ray Cressey, Criminology
    • Not until 1933 were all anticircus laws, except those regarding towns' rights to license circuses, repealed in that state (Thayer 1981).1990, Robert Bogdan, Freak show: presenting human oddities for amusement and profit

Forms of anticircus

comparativemore anticircus
superlativemost anticircus

Origin of anticircus

From anti- + circus.

Questions about anticircus

What does anticircus mean?
Anticircus means opposing circuses.
What part of speech is anticircus?
Anticircus is an adjective.

Words near anticircus in the dictionary

  1. anticippointment
  2. anticircular
  3. anticircumcision
  4. anticircumsporozoite
  5. anticircumvention
  6. anticircus
  7. anticistamines
  8. anticitizenship
  9. anticitrullinated
  10. anticitrulline
  11. anticity

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