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Definition of Prohibition

1. Noun. A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages. "In 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"

2. Noun. A decree that prohibits something.

3. Noun. The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment.

4. Noun. Refusal to approve or assent to.

5. Noun. The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof). "He ignored his parents' forbiddance"

Definition of Prohibition

1. n. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

Definition of Prohibition

1. Proper noun. (history) any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal ¹

2. Noun. An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something. ¹

3. Noun. A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prohibition

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Prohibition

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Literary usage of Prohibition

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"11 Everybody's 34:309-27 Mr '16 Prohibition See alna National conventions, ... No Am 204:407-12 S '16 Prohibition and the Unitarian temperance society. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Prohibition, used in a special sense, means the interdiction by Jaw of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors for use as beverages. ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Prohibition—United States— Continued Now committee on war prohibition. ... the prohibition cry. World's Work 33:237-8 Ja '17 President Wilson secures a ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"A writ of prohibition ie a prerogative writ—that is to say, ... Before the Judicature Acts prohibition was granted by one of the Superior Courts at. ..."

5. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"It is safe to predict that the strict enforcement of the prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution will cause a still further decrease in the number ..."

6. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"directed to the sheriff that he do not hold plea in a writ of right, because the tenant has put himself upon the Grand Assize; or a prohibition may be ..."

7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"The writ of prohibition is never granted where there is any other legal ... Application of Victoria Hudson for writ of prohibition against WH Preston. ..."

8. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"And, even in ordinary cases, the writ of prohibition is not absolutely final and conclusive. For though the ground be a proper one in point of law, ..."

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