free silverite

noun

An advocate of the free silver movement.

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Meanings

nounfree silverite (plural free silverites)

plural free silverites · alternative free-silverite

  1. UShistoricaleconomicsAn advocate of the free silver movement.
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    They may be as little appreciated on monetary as on political subjects, but an outsider may be permitted to note the significant fact that Mr. Bryan's personal platform seems to go far beyond the party platform on which he stands. Officially he is a free Silverite; actually he is a free Silverite and something more.

    1896 November, W. R. Lawson, “American Currency Cranks”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 64, number 5, New York: E. R. Pelton, page 590

Origin

From free silver + -ite.

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