banning, verbal noun

Origin:
From ban verb.
historical
The action of putting restrictions on a person in terms of security legislation; the state of being banned; restriction sense 1. Also attributive.
1971 Rand Daily Mail 16 Mar. 1Shanthie Naidoo, the Indian woman whose exit permit cannot be used because she has been refused permission to leave Johannesburg, waits with quiet courage in the eight-year isolation of rigid banning.
1977 E. Prov. Herald 29 Nov. 2A Government that had to rely increasingly on bannings, detentions and the suppression of basic freedoms to cope with opposition to its policies was clearly in deep trouble.
1985 T. Heard in J. Crwys-Williams S. Afr. Despatches (1989) 459Banning has been described as civil death, since it restricts a person’s movements and association...Anyone who quotes a banned person is in big trouble.
1990 T. Mathews et al. in Newsweek 19 Feb. 24The campaign gave him his first taste of real action, his first arrest, his first banning.
1990 [see MDM].
The action of putting restrictions on a person in terms of security legislation; the state of being banned; restriction sense 1. Also attributive.
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