temperance advocate
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Mysteria was a big temperance advocate, for both women and men who wrote in.
From Slate • May 16, 2021
A convert to Universalism, he became a passionate temperance advocate and supported women’s rights and abolitionism.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2017
This bill was greeted with all the enthusiasm of a temperance advocate in a bar by the Renewal Fuel Association, which exists to promote ethanol usage.
From Forbes • Feb. 9, 2015
"I personally have been an earnest temperance advocate for 40 years and I am only willing to support a substitute measure for Prohibition which promises better temperance than Prohibition."
From Time Magazine Archive
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I am not a temperance advocate in the sense in which the word is usually understood.
From A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery by Corson, Juliet