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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
Our JH Andrews, a nephalist and vegetist of lifelong standing.
Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President—Heer J. L. de Jonge—described himself as a nephalist.
[...] but he was at the same time so zealous and scrupulously honest a nephalist, as he called himself, that he immediately gave up the use of wine when the distinctness of the need for it became obscured.
Use nephalist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nephalist means (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
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Our JH Andrews, a nephalist and vegetist of lifelong standing.
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