| slovo | definícia |
WCTU
(gcide) | Woman's Christian Temperance Union \Woman's Christian Temperance
Union\
An association of women formed in the United States in 1874,
for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive,
educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. It is also
known as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and by its
acronym WCTU or W.C.T.U.. It was one of the political
forces leading to passage of the constitutional amendment,
later repealed, which prohibited the sale of alcoholic
beverages.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
WCTU
(gcide) | Woman's Christian Temperance Union \Woman's Christian Temperance
Union\
An association of women formed in the United States in 1874,
for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive,
educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. It is also
known as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and by its
acronym WCTU or W.C.T.U.. It was one of the political
forces leading to passage of the constitutional amendment,
later repealed, which prohibited the sale of alcoholic
beverages.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] |
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