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proscription [prəʊˈskrɪpʃən] n
1. the act of proscribing or the state of being proscribed 2. denunciation, prohibition, or exclusion 3. outlawry or ostracism [from Latin prōscriptiō; see proscribe] proscriptive adj proscriptively adv proscriptiveness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
proscription noun 1. prohibition, ban, damning, dooming, boycott, embargo, rejection, condemnation, censure, denunciation, interdict the proscription of all customs not conforming to religious law 2. banishment, exile, exclusion, expulsion, deportation, eviction, ejection, ostracism, excommunication, expatriation, attainder (archaic), outlawry her proscription by the party's leaders Translations proscription [prəʊˈskrɪpʃən] n (= prohibition) → interdiction f the proscription of sth → l'interdiction de qch the proscription against sth → l'interdiction de qch proscription How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The new king and his nobles had not only been led by years of proscription and exile to hate on principle everything that bore the name of Puritan, but had spent their exile at the French Court, where utterly cynical and selfish pursuit of pleasure and licentiousness of conduct were merely masked by conventionally polished manners. Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law. The house, as the case stood, admirably lent itself; he might wonder at the taste, the native architecture of the particular time, which could rejoice so in the multiplication of doors - the opposite extreme to the modern, the actual almost complete proscription of them; but it had fairly contributed to provoke this obsession of the presence encountered telescopically, as he might say, focused and studied in diminishing perspective and as by a rest for the elbow. |
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