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Another word for prohibition

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prohibition

n.

The act of prohibiting
forbiddance, interdiction, prescription, ban, repudiation; see also refusal.
Restrictions placed upon the handling or consumption of liquor; often capital
Volstead Act, temperance, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Amendment; the Noble Experiment*, the Lost Cause*, the Eighteenth Amusement*.

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Another word for prohibition

noun

A refusal to allow:

ban, disallowance, forbiddance, inhibition, interdiction, proscription, taboo. See allow

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He re-enacted the prohibition of appeal.
One day to come to an end; the prohibition of marriage follows naturally on this view.
It aimed at the prohibition of discrimination between persons, places and commodities.
The particular prohibition of Paul (i Cor.
Threatened those who disobeyed this prohibition with excommunication.

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