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What is the noun for prohibition?

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prohibition
  1. An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
  2. A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Here, in these regulations, there is a strict prohibition of gambling of any kind.”
      “The blanket prohibition of drugs, I think, is wrong.”
      “As the child internalizes and submits to the father's prohibition, it turns from the pleasure to the reality principle.”
prohibitionist
  1. A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As discussed above, prohibitionist policies and criminal sanctions have failed to combat the problems associated with injection drug use.”
      “America is on one of its prohibitionist kicks, treating drugs as something utterly satanic.”
      “She reminded us that since the mid-19th century, the federal government has taken a prohibitionist approach.”
prohibitionism
  1. (law) The doctrine that people will refrain from certain actions if they are deemed unlawful (prohibited)
prohibiter
  1. One who prohibits or forbids.
prohibitive
prohibitiveness
  1. The quality of being prohibitive.
prohibitedness
  1. The quality of being prohibited.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The prohibitedness of firecrackers in the city is strictly enforced to ensure public safety.”
prohibitor
  1. One who prohibits.
prohibitionists
prohibitives
  1. plural of prohibitive
prohibitions
  1. plural of prohibition
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The advocates claim that enforcing prohibitions against colonizing public and private space penalizes street vagrants merely for being homeless.”
      “Some churchmen are heard to grumble about violations of the prohibitions of shared worship with heretics and schismatics.”
      “The prohibitions include a ban on trading and sleeping on the sidewalk, green areas, riverbanks and other public places.”
prohibitors
  1. plural of prohibitor
prohibiters
  1. plural of prohibiter
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