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Banned

adjective

Forbidden by law. Synonym: prohibited.

Ban

verb

(past & past part. banned; pres. part. banning)

Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper). Synonym: censor.

Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure.

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment. Synonym: banish.

Expel from a community or group. Synonyms: banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun.

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"Banned" Quotes from Famous Books

... led to their undoing. The accumulation of liberated carbonic acid gas in the workings killed them in scores. They probably fought this unseen demon with the tenacity of their race, until the place became accursed and banned of all living things. Yet had they dug a little ditch, and permitted the invisible terror to flow quietly downwards until its potency was dissipated by sea and air, they might have mined the ...

— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy

... picked squadron at some given altitude. Every minute or two could be heard the rush of some unit starting forth. There were few of the accompaniments of an ordinary ascent, for all loud cries had been banned. ...

— Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic • Charles Amory Beach

... superstitious person might almost imagine that one of the old Scottish Covenanters, whilst the grand house was being built from the profits resulting from the sale of writings favouring Popery and persecution, and calumniatory of Scotland's saints and martyrs, had risen from the grave, and banned Scott, his race, and his house, by ...

— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

... world's thought; it, too, was an attorney's special pleading against the equality of man. Any book or theory that upheld the equality of man was carefully excluded from the shelves. Darwin's great hypothesis, and every development springing from it, had been banned, because the moment that a theory was propounded of the great biologic relationship of all flesh, from worms to vertebrates, there instantly followed a corollary of ...

— Birthright - A Novel • T.S. Stribling

... more generally received than in the Netherlands. In few countries did their adherents endure more terrible persecution. In Germany Charles V. had banned the Reformation, and he would gladly have brought all its adherents to the stake; but the princes stood up as a barrier against his tyranny. In the Netherlands his power was greater, and persecuting edicts followed each other in quick ...

— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

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