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antipledge

antipledge adjective: opposed to a particular pledge.

Adjective

antipledge (comparative more antipledge, superlative most antipledge)

  1. Opposed to a particular pledge.
    • It was an issue of great personal importance to young men who thought they might be drafted, and possibly killed, in a war they regarded as immoral. Janis and Rausch (1970) tested for selective exposure to propledge and antipledge communications among four different kinds of Yale students: those...1978, Jonathan L. Freedman, David O. Sears, J. Merrill Carlsmith, Social Psychology, page 363
    • Supporters of the pledge took a two-to-one lead over their opponents, although the contest was closer in Flint and Detroit, where antipledge votes reached almost 45 percent of all those cast.2003, Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War At Home: The CIO In World War II, page 196
    Antonyms:
    propledge

Noun

antipledge (plural antipledges)

  1. A pledge taken in explicit opposition to a more commonly taken pledge.
    • In the 1970s, white antibusing activists in Boston recited an antipledge: “We will not pledge allegiance to the order of the United States District Court, nor the dictatorship for which it stands; one order, under Garrity, with liberty and justice for none.”2011, Jill Lepore, The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle over American History

Antonyms of antipledge

Forms of antipledge

Adjective
comparativemore antipledge
superlativemost antipledge
Noun
pluralantipledges

Origin of antipledge

From anti- + pledge.

Questions about antipledge

What does antipledge mean?
Antipledge means opposed to a particular pledge.
What part of speech is antipledge?
Antipledge can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antipledge in the dictionary

  1. antiplatonic
  2. antiplay
  3. antiplays
  4. antipleasure
  5. antiplectic
  6. antipledge
  7. antipledges
  8. antipledging
  9. antipleion
  10. antipleions
  11. antiplethoric

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