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  • adjective Opposing pleasure.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ pleasure

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Examples

  • In 1784, Benjamin Rush, America’s founding doctor, published An Inquiry into the Effects of Spiritous Liquors, which became one of the most important of the Founding Fathers’ many antipleasure manifestoes during the early national period.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

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