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Vinony

banning

noun

  1. act of prohibition
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbænɪŋ/

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A city in Riverside County, California, United States.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English banning, bannyng, bonnyng, equivalent to ban + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian banning, Dutch banning, German Low German Banning, German Bannung.

  1. The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.

    “And it was not as though they were unable, as the waves of bannings and algorithmic deboosting of those on the online right began in earnest after 2016.”

verb

Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

  1. present participle and gerund of ban