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teetotal |ˈtēˌtōtl|adjectivechoosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol teetotalism |-ˌizəm| |ˈtiˈˈtoʊdlˈɪzəm| nounORIGIN mid 19th cent.: emphatic extension of total , apparently first used by Richard Turner, a worker from Preston, England, in a speech (1833)urging total abstinence from all alcohol, rather than mere abstinence from spirits, advocated by some early temperance reformers.
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