Prohibiting
[prə'hibitɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prohibit
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Examples
- I told him that no order had been issued prohibiting the congregation attending the church. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- And to see the old dowager making her recline on a couch, and 'my son John' prohibiting excitement, etcetera--faugh! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They started out to abolish human instincts, check economic tendencies and repress social changes by laws prohibiting them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As early as 1483, pins were important enough in England to warrant the passing of a law by Parliament prohibiting their importation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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