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Prohibition   /prˌoʊəbˈɪʃən/   Listen
Prohibition

noun
1.
A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages.
2.
A decree that prohibits something.  Synonyms: ban, proscription.
3.
The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment.  Synonym: prohibition era.
4.
Refusal to approve or assent to.
5.
The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof).  Synonyms: forbiddance, inhibition.  "A medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages" , "He ignored his parents' forbiddance"



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"Prohibition" Quotes from Famous Books



... chief centres of influence in his diocese. In the 12th century the abbots of Fulda claimed precedence of the archbishop of Cologne. Abbots more and more assumed almost episcopal state, and in defiance of the prohibition of early councils and the protests of St Bernard and others, adopted the episcopal insignia of mitre, ring, gloves and sandals. It has been maintained that the right to wear mitres was sometimes granted by the popes to abbots before the 11th century, but the documents on which this claim is ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... Hazlit, in a fit of abstraction, kissing the note; "this accounts for her never mentioning him;" then, recovering himself, and turning abruptly and sternly to Edgar, he said:—"How did you dare, sir, to write to her after my express prohibition?" ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne

... clothed in steel and equipped with sword and lance and battle-axe, and if they couldn't persuade a person to try a sewing-machine on the installment plan, or a melodeon, or a barbed-wire fence, or a prohibition journal, or any of the other thousand and one things they canvassed for, they removed him and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... extremely unpleasant end, for the island was the last stronghold of that strange and dreadful Hindu custom, suttee—the burning of widows. The last public suttee in Bali was held as recently as 1907, but, in spite of the stern prohibition of the practise by the Dutch, it is said that some women faithful to the old customs and to their dead husbands continue to join the latter on the funeral pyre. In fact, the Controleur at Kloeng Kloeng told me that, only a few weeks ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

... had got a little behind the King, now exerted himself by look and sign to make the Marquis understand that he should say nothing to Richard of what was passing without. But Conrade understood not, or heeded not, the prohibition. ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott


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