1. prohibition - Noun
2. Prohibition - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain. Claude Adrien Helvétius
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws. George Soros
By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice. Thomas Szasz
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. James Surowiecki
A book whos sale's forbidden all men rush to see, and prohibition turns one reader into three. Italian Proverb
There is pain in prohibition. Irish Proverb