prohibitory

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Dry since it entered the Union in 1889, North Dakota repealed its Prohibitory laws by a close vote.

From Time Magazine Archive

The recent passage of the Prohibitory Amendment is significant that our people are awake and ready to welcome the greatest good to the greatest number, which means equal rights to all at an early day.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

The winter's war, the king's stubbornness, Parliament's Prohibitory Act, Dunmore's martial law, and Thomas Paine's stirring rhetoric in his incomparable Common Sense had all swung public opinion toward independence.

From The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 by Virginia. History, Government, and Geography Service

This was the case invariably, excepting in towns where the majority of the voting members of the Prohibitory party were also in favor of woman suffrage.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Reference must now be made to the notorious "Prohibitory Order."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various