Antipledge
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A pledge taken in explicit opposition to a more commonly taken pledge.
"In the 1970s, white antibusing activists in Boston recited an antipledge: “We will not pledge allegiance to the order of the United States District Court, nor the dictatorship for which it stands; one order, under Garrity, with liberty and justice for none.”"
- 1 Opposed to a particular pledge.
"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."
Antonyms
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More 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."
Etymology
From anti- + pledge.
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