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| | The Mavens' Word of the Day |
 | | My question is about the infamously prefix-laden "antidisestablishmentarianism," which I first saw in, of all places, an episode of "The Jetsons." Simply lobbing off the ends and interpreting the negatives and double negatives wherever I can, I've taken it to mean 'the opposition to the deprivation of status'. |
 | | And finally, the belief of such a person is known as antidisestablishmentarianism, which we define in the Random House Unabridged Dictionary as 'opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England'. |
 | | The various shorter forms of these words, which I am getting tired of typing, appear throughout the nineteenth century; the longest word, which appears as the title of this entry, is found by the beginning of this century. |
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