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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrine and methods of the Prohibitionists.

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Examples

  • In the case of the WoD, the anti – prohibitionism is what’s partisan.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance 2010

  • The best most generous and least paranoid of my theories holds that "prohibitionism" is a sort of natural human impulse, and virtually garaunteed to emerge at various times.

    Sandburg's City 2006

  • So is prohibitionism — what draws partisan lines is the question of what to prohibit.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance 2010

  • But prohibitionism has its creative and radical exponents too, not least Costa, who argues: "Why open the floodgates to addiction by increasing access to drugs?"

    Richard Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging 2011

  • Barnum was among hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned toward prohibitionism because, he wrote, “Neal Dow may God bless him! had opened our eyes.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Republican politicians, fearing that prohibitionism was divisive and might weaken the unity that had formed in the young party around the slavery issue, began to tiptoe around it.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • So is prohibitionism — what draws partisan lines is the question of what to prohibit.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance 2010

  • Barnum was among hundreds of thousands of Americans who turned toward prohibitionism because, he wrote, “Neal Dow may God bless him! had opened our eyes.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Republican politicians, fearing that prohibitionism was divisive and might weaken the unity that had formed in the young party around the slavery issue, began to tiptoe around it.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Then the Democrat focused on attacking Paul's anti-prohibitionism in the general election.

    Matt Simon: Paul Says Citizens Will Rise to End Drug War 2008

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