The difference between Ban and Empower
When used as verbs, ban means to summon, whereas empower means to give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
Ban is also noun with the meaning: prohibition.
check bellow for the other definitions of Ban and Empower
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Ban as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To summon; to call out.
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Ban as a verb (transitive):
To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
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Ban as a verb (transitive):
To curse; to execrate.
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Ban as a verb (transitive):
To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
Examples:
"Bare feet are banned in this establishment."
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Ban as a verb (transitive):
To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
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Ban as a noun:
Prohibition.
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Ban as a noun:
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
Examples:
"Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice."
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Ban as a noun:
The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
Examples:
"He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban."
"The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king."
"France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated."
"The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services."
"The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban."
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Ban as a noun (obsolete):
A curse or anathema.
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Ban as a noun:
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
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Ban as a noun:
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian .
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Ban as a noun:
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan .
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Ban as a noun:
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
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Ban as a noun:
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
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Empower as a verb (transitive):
To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
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Empower as a verb (transitive):
To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
Examples:
"John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations."