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Banning   /bˈænɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Ban  v. t.  (past & past part. banned; pres. part. banning)  
1.
To curse; to invoke evil upon.
2.
To forbid; to interdict.



Ban  v. i.  To curse; to swear. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Banning" Quotes from Famous Books



... that's sic a Christian man! Grand doin's for the Master o' Ball'ntrae!" I asked him what the Master had thought of it himself. "How would I ken?" says he. "He never said naething." And on again in his usual manner of banning and swearing, with every now and again a "Master of Ballantrae" sneered through his nose. It was in one of these confidences that he showed me the Carlisle letter, the print of the horse-shoe still stamped in the paper. ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) - The Master of Ballantrae • Robert Louis Stevenson

... A banning, rather than a censorship, of printed matter injurious to children should be the subject of immediate ...
— Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents - The Mazengarb Report (1954) • Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.



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