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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/890496-Word-choice-Antebellum
Rated: 18+ · Book · Mystery · #2046985
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#890496 added August 21, 2016 at 2:50pm
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Word choice: Antebellum


Antebellum:


ADJECTIVE

1. before or existing before a war, especially the American Civil War; prewar:
the antebellum plantations of Georgia.

Examples:

I know Tom Woods is an intriguing writer, and I too love my liberty, but this is no longer the antebellum era. ~ by Justin Green

Also, ante-bellum, from Latin phrase ante bellum, literally "before the war;" see ante- + bellicose. In U.S., usually in reference to the American Civil War (1861-65); first attested in a June 14, 1862, entry in Mary Chesnut's diary.

A descriptive term for objects and institutions, especially houses, that originated three or four decades before the Civil War. Antebellum is Latin for “before the war.”





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