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Teetotaler vs Nephalist - What's the difference?

teetotaler | nephalist |

As nouns the difference between teetotaler and nephalist

is that teetotaler is (us) a person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages while nephalist is (obsolete|temperance movement) one who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.

teetotaler

English

Alternative forms

* (British ) teetotaller

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) A person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages.

    • Related terms

    * teetotal * teetotally * teetotalling * teetotalism

    nephalist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller
  • *{{quote-book, 1883, James Miller, The dietetic reformer, and vegetarian messegen a monthly record of moral and physical proess volix third series, page=335, pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZgQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA335
    • , passage=Our JH Andrews, a nephalist and vegetist of lifelong standing.}}
  • *{{quote-book, 1881, , The National Temperance League's annual, page=39, pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bgUFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA39
    • , passage=Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President — Heer JL de Jonge — described himself as a nephalist .}}
  • *1865 "Obituary: The Late Professor Miller," Edinburgh medical journal - Volume 10, Part 1, 92:
    • [...] 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.

    Related terms

    *nephalism