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TEETOTALISM

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 503 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TAV-THE
TEETOTALISM , the practice of total
abstinence
  from all intoxicating liquors, hence that form of the temperance
movement
  of which the basis is the " pledge " to abstain from all intoxicating liquors (see TEMPERANCE). There seems no doubt that the word, whatever its actual origin, is a strengthened form of " total," probably influenced by " teetotum " (q.v.). Ac-cording to the Century Dictionary, the secretary of a New
York
  temperance society introduced a total
abstinence
  pledge among its members, who were thus divided into those who had taken the old pledge, the O.P.'s, to abstain from spirituous liquors, and the T.'s, who had taken the new or total pledge. The English version, taken from the account by Joseph Livesey in the Staunch Teetotaler, January 1867, is that one Richard
Turner
 , a Preston artisan and popular temperance speaker, declared at a meeting about 1833, that " nothing but tee-teetotal would do." This repetition of the initial
letter
  does not appear to have been due to his
stammering
  but to have been a mere emphasis on the word. The expression seems to have obtained instant recognition and popularity. Both versions are apparently authentic, and there seems no reason to suppose that they are not independent.


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