Meaning of antipledge | Babel Free

Definitions

Opposed to a particular pledge.

Examples

“It was an issue⟳ of great personal importance to young men who thought they might be drafted, and possibly killed, in a war they regarded as immoral. Janis and Rausch (1970) tested for selective exposure to propledge and antipledge communications among four different kinds of Yale students: those who immediately refused to sign⟳ the , those who refused after some deliberation, those who favored the pledge and said they might sign⟳, and those who had already signed it.”

“Supporters of the pledge took a two-to-one lead⟳ over their opponents, although the contest was closer in Flint and Detroit, where antipledge votes reached almost 45 percent of all those cast⟳.”

“In the antebellum years, both temperance opponents, in their antipledge writings, and reformers themselves, in their drunkard narratives , expressed deep concern⟳ about the nature of influence⟳ and worried that it could potentially interrupt⟳ its object's volition and become⟳ coercion.”

“This bloc of "real brothers" engages in a struggle⟳ with antipledge movements for the hearts, minds, and bodies of entering members.”

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