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Banning   /bˈænɪŋ/   Listen
Banning

noun
1.
An official prohibition or edict against something.  Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding.


Ban

verb
(past & past part. banned; pres. part. banning)
1.
Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper).  Synonym: censor.
2.
Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure.
3.
Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment.  Synonym: banish.
4.
Expel from a community or group.  Synonyms: banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun.



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"Banning" Quotes from Famous Books



... Watch, or the Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and of Lieutenant van Ruytenburg. The corps is represented in broad daylight, leaving the Doele of the Arquebusiers. At their head, standing in the foreground about the centre, are the Captain and his Lieutenant conversing. ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... of the prison of soules: and that because they see no wood nor any such fewell layed vpon this fire as they haue in their owne chimneys at home. And by this perswasion of the grosse multitude, the report grew strong, especially (as they are too much accustomed to banning and cursing) while one would wish to another the firie torments of this mountaine. As though elementarie, materiall and visible fire could consume mens soules being spirituall, bodiless and inuisible substances. And to be short, who can but woonder, why ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... accident at Chichester, while he was proceeding to Goodwood races; and that the knight of Malta,—Mr. Tom, a brewer of Truro, the self-styled Sir William Courtenay, who played the strange tricks at Canterbury chronicled in a song given in these pages,—after his release from Banning Heath Asylum, was shot through the head while leading on a mob of riotous Kentish yeomen, whom he had persuaded that he ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth


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