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▪ I. anti, a. and n.|ˈæntɪ|
[anti-1 used as a word.]
A. adj. or quasi-adj. Against or antagonistic to some person or thing.
1857Mundy Antipodes (ed. 4) xix. 209 The ‘Anti’ journals joined with them in coarse personalities. 1939R. C. K. Ensor Who Hitler Is 6 The circumstances of Vienna made both schools anti-Semite; those of Austria made them both anti-Slav, and in particular anti-Czech. The ‘anti’ feelings were intense. 1948‘J. Tey’ Franchise Affair xii. 129 ‘Some letters on the correspondence page.’..‘All anti, I suppose.’ 1953R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 299 ‘You were violently anti all that, weren't you?’ ‘You make me sound like a Hyde Park tub-thumper.’
B. n. One who is against or antagonistic to some person or thing; spec. (U.S.) used as abbrev. of anti-federalist.
1788Columbian July 414/1 It was agreed to raise the constitution that the anti's had burnt. 1801Spirit of Farmers' Museum 56 There Feds shall cease to charge the Antis With making Frenchmen rule brave yankees. 1826M. Edgeworth Thoughts on Bores in Janus 96, I invite every true friend of literature and of good conversation, blues and antis, to contribute their assistance. 1889Pall Mall Gaz. 27 June 1 The ‘antis’ have no option but to take it up. 1963Times 17 May 15/4 Our times are fertile of protestation; anything from new roads or buildings to the methods of national defence calls forth the campaigning of the ‘antis’.
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