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antirum

antirum adjective: opposing the drinking of rum.

Adjective

antirum (comparative more antirum, superlative most antirum)

  1. Opposing the drinking of rum.
    • Those who had internalized that ethic and had linked it with the prohibitory cause were responsive to the antirum, antiparty pronouncements of their religious conferences.1979, Paul Kleppner, The Third Electoral System 1853-1892, volume 2, page 256
    • Their politics amount to no more than the division between the rum and the antirum parties[…]1987, Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady, On Mark Twain, page 147

Forms of antirum

comparativemore antirum
superlativemost antirum

Origin of antirum

From anti- + rum.

Questions about antirum

What does antirum mean?
Antirum means opposing the drinking of rum.
What part of speech is antirum?
Antirum is an adjective.

Words near antirum in the dictionary

  1. antirrhinum
  2. antirrhinums
  3. Antirrio
  4. Antirrion
  5. antirubella
  6. antirum
  7. antirunway
  8. antirural
  9. antirust
  10. antirusting
  11. antirusts

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