proscribe

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This jealousy does not degrade its object; it may hate, proscribe, and kill, but it is nevertheless mingled with the fanaticism of admiration, and encourages genius, even in persecuting it.

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  1. transitive verb To denounce or condemn.
  2. transitive verb To prohibit; forbid. See Synonyms at forbid.
  3. transitive verb To banish or outlaw (a person).
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  • One art alone did they seek to proscribe, the art dramatic, and in 1762 the Senate was profoundly disturbed by a project then on foot for the erection of the first permanent theatre in Glasgow. —  Life of Adam Smith
  • It took me a long while to realize it, but in a way, I was like that electron: for too long, I allowed the thousands of potential lives I might have led to limit, to proscribe, the life I was leading. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 05 - May 1997
  • Such propaganda campaigns proscribe ideas and possibilities, and they subvert popular movements. —  Dissident Voice
  • Though sharia in its original scriptural form doesn't directly proscribe women from schools or from working, modern interpretations can bend sharia in a particularly chauvinist direction, barring women from public life and education. —  open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
  • A study ran by some brainy folk over in California about the most and least ticketed of all vehicles doesn't turn any heads, but rather reinforces the obvious: Hummer owners typically drive like the stereotype they proscribe - loners, whereas people piloting Park Avenues appear to have no discernible pulse. —  Jalopnik
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  1. Middle English proscriben, from Latin prōscrībere, to put up someone's name as outlawed : prō-, in front; see pro-1 + scrībere, to write; see skrībh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French proscrire = Spanish proscribir = Portuguese proscrever = Italian proscrivere, from Latin proscribere, write before, publish, advertise, publish as having forfeited one's property, confiscate the property of, outlaw, proscribe, from pro, before, + scribere, write.
 

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