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/prˌɑfɪlˈæktɪk/ /prˌoʊfɪlˈæktɪk/ Listen

Prophylactic

noun

Remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease. Synonyms: preventative, preventive.

Contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse. Synonyms: condom, rubber, safe, safety.

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... and wage-earners of the many; and the tendency of wages towards a minimum and of hours of labour towards a maximum has only been counteracted by painful organization among the workers, and later on by legislation extorted by their votes. Neither the Evangelical nor the Oxford movement proved any prophylactic against the immorality of commercial and industrial creeds. While those two religious movements were at their height, new centres of industrial population were allowed to grow up without the least regard for health or decency. Under the influence of laissez-faire philosophy, ...

— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard

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... solution for the problems of sex. Education has become the modern panacea for many of our ills—hygienic, industrial, political, and social. We have found people losing health for various reasons and we have proposed hygienic instruction as a prophylactic. We have analyzed many problems of the industries, and now we are beginning to seek their solution in industrial education. We have noted that numerous social and political misunderstandings check progress of individuals ...

— Sex-education - A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its - relation to human life • Maurice Alpheus Bigelow

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... for careful art; self-revelation, for world knowledge; pretty writing, for literature; violence, for strength; and warped and unhealthy egoism for the wise sincerity which is the soul of literature. In all such instances definition is the prophylactic, ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

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