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English
Etymology
From free silver + -ite.
Noun
free silverite (plural free silverites)
- (US, economics, historical) An advocate of the free silver movement.
1896 November, W. R. Lawson, “American Currency Cranks”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 64, number 5, New York: E. R. Pelton, page 590:They may be as little appreciated on monetary as on political subjects, but an outsider may be permitted to note the significant fact that Mr. Bryan's personal platform seems to go far beyond the party platform on which he stands. Officially he is a free Silverite; actually he is a free Silverite and something more.