Prohibition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROHIBITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of prohibiting
• the action of forbidding something, especially by law
• a law or regulation forbidding something
• a writ from a superior court forbidding an inferior court from proceeding in a suit deemed to be beyond its cognizance.
• the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.
• The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
• Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
• a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages
• a decree that prohibits something
• the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
• refusal to approve or assent to
• the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of prohibiting by authority

Words related to PROHIBITION

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Words that contain PROHIBITION

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How to use PROHIBITION in a sentence

• Haines, that prohibition stops at my front door, in Mississippi.
• The very prohibition of the import of salt to, and of the export of shipbuilding timber from, Macedonia appears to have been directed against Rhodes.
• Generally only things wrong in themselves, not things wrong by local prohibition, are included.
• It is said that duties may be laid upon the publications so high as to amount to a prohibition.
• When Southern men consented to its prohibition, they hoped and believed that the time would come when it could be abolished altogether.
• Southerners who had not gone to the extreme in the prohibition of the instruction of Negroes felt more inclined to answer the critics of their radical neighbors.
• It was quite a pleasant little party in the battle zone, and there was a discussion on the subject of temperance, led by an officer who was very keen on total prohibition.
• Then as now cattle was its chief wealth, and such a prohibition meant nothing short of ruin to the landowners, and through them to all who depended upon them.
• Next year, the Archbishop of Paris, who had paid no attention to the prohibition, was exiled in his turn.
• They are willing to trade on equal terms, but will meet prohibition with prohibition.
• If the theory of prohibition should prevail, or again, if the doctrine of liberty should triumph, a very small amount of law would suffice for our economic code.
• There must be some good reason for the prohibition.
• In 1881, when the vote on prohibition was taken in the State, it was all against the proposition.
• I only resist the imposition of new obligations, or a new prohibition, not to be found, as I think, either in the Constitution or any act of Congress.
• Major Denham allowed his zeal for discovery to overcome other considerations, and contrived, notwithstanding the prohibition of the sheik, to be one of the party.
• The first Prohibition Society, of which we have record, was this Order of the Nazarites.
• The prohibition of marriage between different races we have mentioned in another chapter.
• In 1908 we find more parole and probation laws, two prohibition and three local-option laws, and four new pure-food statutes.
• Tobacco is a royal monopoly, and the duty is so high, that it amounts almost to a prohibition, and consequently affords great temptation to smuggling.
• France, on her part, replaced prohibition by a series of moderate duties.
• Consistently and conscientiously a radical, he always took extreme ground on such questions as negro rights, female suffrage, and liquor prohibition, and he never retreated.
• I voted for them, not as doing complete justice to Ireland, but as being something less unjust than the general prohibition which has hitherto prevailed.
• Proclamations warned and exhorted, but the very interference of prohibition rendered the crowded town more delightful.
• Then in respect to the prohibition, the false prophet has, in the Koran, forbidden his followers to use wine at all.
• But the Quakers deny this, because the disciples, as Jews, must have known that profane swearing had been unlawful long before this prohibition of Jesus Christ.
• Bank bills issued upon the credit of private individuals, do not come under the prohibition.
• But there is a prohibition by law, of mental and religious instruction.

Similar words containing PROHIBI without suffix tion

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