proscription

[ US /pɹoʊsˈkɹɪpʃən/ ]
[ UK /pɹəskɹˈɪpʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a decree that prohibits something
  2. rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
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How To Use proscription In A Sentence

  • What's with the proscription on frying in the brownstone, anyway?
  • There are no provisions for banned passengers to see the accusatory information or contest their proscription.
  • Unless, and I’m only going out on a limb here, your proscription is totally arbitrary. The no-final-prepositions rule: Not even half right. « Motivated Grammar
  • I actually intended “enormity” in this post to evoke primarily a sense of size and then to also take advantage of the secondary meaning to suggest that the proscription is bad; it’s easier to replace the word with “immensity” than with “wickedness” in my sentence. Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar
  • The proscription against physicians talking about themselves with patients comes from several different traditions.
  • A terrible list of victims, called the "proscription," because it was posted up in the forum, was prepared. Roman life in the days of Cicero
  • But these stories contain much more than moral visions and proscriptions.
  • The song, from which I removed the family name, was published in the 1890s, and bewailed the loss of the family name, in the 17th century, by Royal proscription.
  • venality," had quite as much to do on the part of those who wished to perpetuate the government of disloyalty, proscription, and persecution as on the part of those who desired to "render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's," and to place the Government of Massachusetts, like that of the other New England Colonies, upon the broad foundation of equal and general franchise and religious liberty. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816
  • By the way, there is no requirement from the UN Security Council for a general proscription power to be enacted.
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