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countable and uncountable, plural proscriptions
A prohibition. examples
(history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity. quotations
He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription [...]
1837, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Tacitus' Annals, book 1
The act of proscribing, or its result. examples
A decree or law that prohibits. examples