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    If I've told him once I've told him a hundred times: Carpets are defined as a Muggle Artifact by the Registry of Proscribed Charmable Objects, but will he listen?†  (source)
    Proscribed = disallowed or condemned as bad
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    The gate proscribed the entry of other realities: our father, Ken LaSalle (though not Mary Carson, who came in his inquisitive way and said to me, "It's just you and Ty now, I guess.†  (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)
    proscribed = disallowed or condemned as bad
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    They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation.†  (source)
    proscription = the act of forbidding or condemning; or the thing forbidden or condemned
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    Soon he was proscribing parts of salutations and signatures and leaving the text untouched.†  (source)
    proscribing = forbidding or condemning as bad
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    Mine speak of seventy Senators that died By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.  (source)
    proscriptions = condemnations
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    It seems that we must always have something to proscribe!†  (source)
    proscribe = forbid or condemn as bad
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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)
    proscribes = forbids or condemns as bad
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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)
    unproscribed = not forbidden or condemned as bad
    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)
    proscribed = disallowed or condemned as bad
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    He knows too well that it leads to still greater sufferings, to proscription, to the last renunciation, perhaps to the scaffold, and even though the enticement of immortality lies at the journey's end, he is still unwilling to suffer all these sufferings and to die all these deaths.†  (source)
    proscription = the act of forbidding or condemning; or the thing forbidden or condemned
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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)
    proscribing = forbidding or condemning as bad
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