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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



... The prohibition of spinning may be due to the Church's hallowing of the season and the idea that all work then was wrong. This churchly hallowing may lie also at the root of the Danish tradition that from Christmas ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... By compressed acetylene, however, is only to be understood gas compressed to a pressure exceeding one effective atmosphere. Acetylene compressed into porous matter, with or without acetone, is excepted from this prohibition. ...
— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
... then superior of the convent, an austere, ascetic man, who looked with disdain and dislike on all popular recreations, had long set his face against it, and had, moreover, tried every means short of actual prohibition to put an end to the profane amusement. The rustics, however, were not to be debarred by his displeasure from pursuing, perhaps, their only pleasure; and though the pious abbot discountenanced their proceedings, they acquiesced not in ...
— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous
... Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental ...
— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... word ought? It's not a matter of permission or prohibition. He will suffer if he is sorry for his victim. Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth," he added dreamily, not in the tone ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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