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teetotalism

[tee-toht-l-iz-uhm, tee-toht-] / tiˈtoʊt lˌɪz əm, ˈtiˌtoʊt- /


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But teetotalism made him a “weird kid” in the small Bavarian town where he grew up.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 9, 2019

Goertz has cited Trump’s lifelong teetotalism as securing her vote.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2016

Washingtonians welcomed the participation of women and children, as they cast alcohol as the destroyer of families, and those who joined the group took a public pledge of teetotalism.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Temperance societies developed a religious zeal for teetotalism.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2014

What happened about the church I know not, but I have heard as regards the teetotalism that drinks were buried by traders just outside the sacred boundaries and dug up secretly by the townsmen.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers


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