Sample Sentences for
proscribe
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    It seems that we must always have something to proscribe!†  (source)
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    It crucifies because, according to the Koran, crucifixion is one of the proscribed punishments for the enemies of Islam.†  (source)
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    It also saw the wisdom of returning to the pre-Napoleonic concepts of small, "nontotal" wars with defined goals and proscribed excesses.†  (source)
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    Except for proscribed midterm holidays, prolonged trips to Calgary grew less and less frequent.†  (source)
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    They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation.†  (source)
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    Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched.†  (source)
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    Mine speak of seventy Senators that died By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.  (source)
    proscriptions = condemnations
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    He proscribes with the same rigor all ornaments for the hair used by the female sex, as well as their custom of having the arms and neck uncovered.†  (source)
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    Was it because it was so wonderful to discover something on this island that was free—something unproscribed by God, Moses, or the Methodist conference?†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unproscribed means not and reverses the meaning of proscribed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Teachers don't have time to analyze each dilemma, so they group the kids with proscribed curricula.†  (source)
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    Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law.†  (source)
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    I am surprised that in our days, in this century of enlightenment, anyone should still persist in proscribing an intellectual relaxation that is inoffensive, moralising, and sometimes even hygienic; is it not, doctor?†  (source)
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    The business of writing English, in his day, was unharassed by the proscriptions of purists, and so the vocabulary could be enriched more facilely than today, but though Shakespeare and his fellow-dramatists quickly adopted such neologisms as /to bustle/, /to huddle/, /bump/, /hubbub/ and /pat/, it goes without saying that they exercised a sound discretion and that the slang of the Bankside was full of words and phrases which they were never tempted to use.†  (source)
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