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anti (n.)
the word-forming element anti- (q.v.) used by itself, short for various nouns beginning in anti-, from 1788, originally in reference to the anti-federalists in U.S. politics (in the 1830s, especially of the U.S. Anti-Masonic political party); as an adjective, from 1857.
updated on September 23, 2022
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