antipledge means opposed to a particular pledge. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
Etymology
From anti- + pledge.
adj
- 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 ”
noun
- 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.””