n
(law) A diriment impediment that prevents a person from marrying, but does not require punishment or an annulment.
adv
in an accusable manner, in a manner chargeable with crime or fault
n
(law) Inaction, passivity, or neglect to take legal action when it is called for in order to assert, preserve, or safeguard a right, and which inaction implies the abandonment of said right.
n
The state of having been annulled.
adj
(finance) Prohibiting conduits.
n
A written defense of a position or belief.
n
Apologist; one who makes an apologia.
n
The act by which something is banned; a prohibition.
n
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
adj
Serving to ward off; preventive
n
(rare) A person or organization that favors or applies censorship.
adj
Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation.
n
The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
n
(military) A strategy that seeks to delay rather than prevent the advance of an attacker, potentially yielding a limited amount of territory in order to stress the attacker's logistics and reduce their momentum.
adj
(British) Alternative spelling of defensive [Intended for defence; protective.]
adj
Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive, defending.
n
(rare) One who is defended.
n
(archaic) That which serves to protect or defend.
n
(obsolete) A prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
adj
Intended for defence; protective.
n
(computing) The practice of planning for contingencies in the design stage of a project so as to make the misuse of the software impossible, or to minimise the negative consequences.
n
one who defends; a defender
n
The state or business of a defensor.
n
(archaic) That which defends.
n
An act of deferring, a deferment.
adj
Serving to deter, preventing something from happening.
n
(law, politics) A power a higher level authority has to disallow particular legislation of the lower level jurisdiction; such as a federal government disallowing state/provincial legislation, or the crown disallowing federal legislation.
n
A temporary ban on making certain information public.
adj
Serving as an excuse; exculpatory.
adj
Tending to expropriate.
n
The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
n
(obsolete) The act of making illegitimate; bastardization.
n
(religion) An exemption from penance.
n
The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
n
(uncountable) The state of being impeached.
n
(Philippines, law) A recusal.
adj
Of or relating to interdiction.
adj
Of or pertaining to interdiction.
adj
Having the power to prohibit.
n
The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
n
(British spelling) Alternative spelling of Nuremberg defense [(ethics, international law, idiomatic) An explanation offered as an excuse for behaving in a criminal or wrongful manner, claiming that one acted in this way because one was ordered by others (particularly superiors) to do so.]
n
One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
adj
(rare) That prescinds; cutting off; abstracting.
n
(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
v
(transitive) To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
n
An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
adj
Relating to prohibition; serving to forbid or ban.
adj
Serving to prohibit something.
n
(law) The doctrine that people will refrain from certain actions if they are deemed unlawful (prohibited)
adj
Of or pertaining to a prohibition.
n
(grammar) A negative imperative.
adj
That serves to prohibit or forbid
n
One who propitiates or appeases.
adj
proscribing or prohibiting, for example as according to a norm or standard
n
(rare) One who is characterized by proscribing; one who tends to proscribe.
n
(law) An event which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.
adj
(non-native speakers' English) Prohibitive (cf. French rédhibitoire).
adj
(law) Of or relating to rehibition.
n
Alternative form of rejecter [One who rejects.]
adj
Causing repression; repressive.
adj
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
n
A policy of repudiation.
adj
Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
adj
Being or relating to retribution; retributive; retaliatory.
n
Alternative spelling of self-defense [The means of defending oneself from physical attack.]
n
An action that is prohibited to a certain class of people, such as consumption of alcohol by minors, or mixed-race marriages under apartheid.
adj
That serves to suppress.
adj
That serves to suppress
n
A policy of surrendering.
n
An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
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