Proscription

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  • noun. The act of proscribing; prohibition.
  • noun. The condition of having been proscribed; outlawry.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of proscribing; outlawry; denunciation; prohibition; exclusion; specifically, the dooming of citizens to death as public enemies, and the confiscation of their goods.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy.
  • noun. The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A prohibition.
  • noun. Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
  • noun. The act of proscribing, or its result.
  • noun. A decree or law that prohibits.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
  • noun. a decree that prohibits something
    • Word Usage
    "Unless, and I’m only going out on a limb here, your proscription is totally arbitrary."
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Egyptian  conniption  conscription  description  encryption  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    annihilation  assassination  banishment  butchery  confiscation  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Eighteenth Amendment  Prohibition Party  Volstead Act  anathema  anathematizing  
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