"temperance movement" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: temperance movements [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} temperance movement (plural temperance movements)
  1. A social movement which campaigned against the consumption of alcohol, and which spread to many countries in its heyday in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Related terms: prohibition, prohibitionism, prohibitionist, teetotaler Translations (movement against alcohol consumption): avholdsbevegelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål)
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