different between nephalist vs nephalism

English

From Ancient Greek ???????? (n?phálios, “sober”), from ???? (n?ph?, “to be sober”)

nephalist (plural nephalists)

(obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller
- 1865 "Obituary: The Late Professor Miller," Edinburgh medical journal - Volume 10, Part 1, 92:
  [...] but he was at the same time so zealous and scrupulously honest a nephalist, as he called himself, that he immediately gave up the use of wine when the distinctness of the need for it became obscured.

From Ancient Greek ???????? (n?phálios, “sober”), from ???? (n?ph?, “to be sober”)

nephalism (uncountable)

(obsolete, Temperance movement) The practice of abstaining completely from the drinking of alcohol; teetotalism

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