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proscriptions

proscriptions is the plural of proscription.

Meaning of proscription

Noun

proscription (countable and uncountable, plural proscriptions)

  1. A prohibition.
  2. Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
    • 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
  3. The act of proscribing, or its result.
  4. A decree or law that prohibits.

Questions about proscriptions

What is proscriptions the plural of?
Proscriptions is the plural of proscription.

Words near proscriptions in the dictionary

  1. proscript
  2. proscription
  3. proscriptional
  4. proscriptionist
  5. proscriptionists
  6. proscriptions
  7. proscriptive
  8. proscriptively
  9. proscriptiveness
  10. proscriptivism
  11. proscriptivist

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