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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



... would sooner or later come to Wahaska. The detective's knowledge of masculine human nature was as profoundly acute as the requirements of his calling demanded. With a woman like Miss Farnham for the lure, he could be morally certain that his man would some time fling caution, or even a written prohibition, to the winds, ...
— The Price • Francis Lynde
... repulsive only to a mind indifferent to the paramount claims of God on His child. She saw something of the falseness and folly of attempting to recommend religion as not so difficult, so exclusive, so full of prohibition as our ancestors believed it. She saw that, although Andrew might regard some things as freely given which others thought God forbade, yet he insisted on what was infinitely higher and more than the abandonment of everything ...
— The Elect Lady • George MacDonald
... a large proportion of our children never apply for work certificates; some because they never intend to work; some because they expect to remain in school until sixteen or later; some because they live on farms, in small towns, or in cities and states where prohibition of child labor is not enforced. Because there is no reason for this large proportion of children to visit a board of health, some substitute must be found. This substitute has been already suggested by principals and district superintendents ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen
... of their own phratry brother gentes and those of the other phratry their cousin gentes, when they mention them in their relation to the phratries. Originally marriage was not allowed between the members of the same phratry but the members of either could marry into any gens of the other. This prohibition tends to show that the gentes of each phratry were subdivisions of an original gens and therefore the prohibition against marrying into a person's own gens had followed to its subdivisions. This restriction however was long since removed except with respect ...
— Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines • Lewis H. Morgan
... the prohibition imposed by Massachusetts, I may be pardoned for a slight inquiry as to the effect of this prohibition. First, it did not in any way abridge or curtail the exercise of the suffrage by any person who enjoyed such right. Nor did it discriminate against the illiterate native and the illiterate ...
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