Nephalist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nephalist is a noun meaning (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
Meaning
(obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- nephalists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tetotaler, teetotaler, antiteetotalism, negrophilist, antialcoholist, nihilist.
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