antipledge

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.”
形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more antipledge comparative most antipledge superlative antipledges plural

词源

词源 1
From anti- + pledge.
词源 2
From anti- + pledge.
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