proscription
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Proscription \Pro*scrip"tion\, n. [L. proscriptio: cf. F.
proscription.]
1. 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; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman
citizens fell by proscription.
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Every victory by either party had been followed by a
sanguinary proscription. --Macaulay.
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2. The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction;
prohibition. --Macaulay.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "proscription":
Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, anathema,
anathematizing, ban, banishment, blackball, blacklist, blasphemy,
boundary, bounds, boycott, boycottage, censure, commination,
condemnation, confinement, continence, contraband, conviction,
curse, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, denial,
denouncement, denunciation, disallowance, discipline, doom,
embargo, evil eye, exclusion, excommunication, execration,
forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, fulmination,
guilty verdict, hex, imprecation, index, index expurgatorius,
index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict,
interdiction, interdictum, judgment, law, limit, limitation,
malison, malocchio, moderation, no-no, ostracism, ostracization,
preclusion, prescription, prevention, prohibition,
prohibitory injunction, qualification, rap, refusal, rejection,
repression, restrain, restriction, restrictive covenants,
ruling out, sentence, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo,
thundering, verdict of guilty, whammy, zoning, zoning laws
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