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Definition of Banning

1. Noun. An official prohibition or edict against something.

Definition of Banning

1. Verb. (present participle of ban) ¹

2. Noun. The act by which something is banned; a prohibition. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Banning

1. ban [v] - See also: ban

Lexicographical Neighbors of Banning

Literary usage of Banning

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

1. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Captain banning Cock and his lieutenant, ... Sorti* of the banning Cock Company, Rembrandt, Amsterdam Museum. On a shield on the building are the names of ..."

2. An Epitome of Leading Common Law Cases: With Some Short Notes Thereon by John Indermaur, John William Smith (1877)
"In this work Mr. banning has grappled with one of the most perplexing branches ... Mr. banning has adhered to the plan of printing the Acts in an appendix, ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"That banning, on April 6, 1880, paid the first instalment on the purchase ... That the defendants have succeeded to the rights of banning and have become ..."

4. Memoirs of Cornelius Cole, Ex-senator of the United States from California by Cornelius Cole (1908)
"General Phineas banning as a member of the State Senate of that year, did not support me at the outset; he was at first in favor of Governor Low for United ..."

5. Police Killings and Rural Violence in Andhra Pradesh: Police Killings and by Patricia Gossman, Asia Watch Committee (U.S.), Asia Watch Committee (U.S. (1992)
"5 The banning Orders of May and July 1992 On May 21, 1992, the government of Andhra Pradesh banned the PWG and eight other organizations which the ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"banning. without which she will have to answer in damages. ... WILLIAM S. banning. Where a case is brought up to this court, and the writ of error appears ..."

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