Unless, and I’m only going out on a limb here, your proscription is totally arbitrary. From Wordnik.com. [The no-final-prepositions rule: Not even half right. « Motivated Grammar] Reference
Is it "proscription" in saying to another man, "I will not vote for you?". From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
A terrible list of victims, called the "proscription," because it was posted up in the forum, was prepared. From Wordnik.com. [Roman life in the days of Cicero] Reference
His presses would set up a fearful howl of proscription. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Beacon to be married, during the proscription of the clergy. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
The most merciless proscription for opinion's sake, followed. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
This proscription is designed to give clients every reason to trust their lawyers. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter Of Truth Or Confidences] Reference
Baron's proscription of arms seemed to have some strange exceptions, he told himself. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
When they heard of the triumvirate and the proscription, they determined to march into. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
He defended the practice of political proscription by charging that both sides did it. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Certain rules, including the "no visitors after 11 p.m." proscription, will be scrapped. From Wordnik.com. [England: The New Street-Wise Nanny] Reference
Then came the segregation codes to add public separation and humiliation to proscription. From Wordnik.com. [Why Its Not Just Paranoia] Reference
This rejoicing was a little marred by the fact that Waverley was still under proscription. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Whatever of strong blood survived, fell as an offering to the proscription of the Triumvirate. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
Norway proposed a ban on butts in all restaurants and bars, the first such proscription in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Norway: No More Smoke] Reference
To Clay's further charge, that he brought with him to Washington the odious system of proscription, the. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Subsequent to 1872 and prior to 1875 race proscription and social ostracism had been completely abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts of Reconstruction] Reference
A general proscription, such as had marked the coming to power of Sulla (see p. 283), was then resolved upon. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
George III to the full extent of his power, through patronage, bribes, social pressure, and political proscription. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Between England and America] Reference
When one party triumphed, proscription followed, and the guillotine was put in requisition, and blood flowed in torrents. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
In the course of his remarks, Clay also referred, in an incidental way, to the odious system of proscription practised in the. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
One would expect to read of a new proscription, after this success, but the victors did not resort to that terrible vengeance. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
To escape proscription he fled from France to Switzerland, and went thence to the United States, where he played in the orchestra of a. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
If the cartoons had portrayed the prophet doing good works, the proscription against representation would have been muted -- if noted at all. From Wordnik.com. [Holy War] Reference
Such was the bitterness against the race growing out of Nat Turner's Insurrection, however, that even such a man fell under the ban of proscription. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Having the spirit of sacrifice which characterized the apostles of old, they endured the hardships resulting from social proscription and crude environment. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Charles the Second had, in 1663, the grace to remove the proscription from the Macgregors, by an Act which was passed in the first Scottish Parliament after his. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
There were fears lest he should make a proscription, but he proceeded to no such extremity, exercising his characteristic clemency towards those who had been opposed to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
But for those unfortunate decisions our country would not be cursed and disgraced today by lynch law and other forms of lawlessness and racial proscription and discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
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