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- noun Plural form of
proscription .
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Examples
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Some of the so-called “unsolved problems” of evolutionary theory might then become design-based predictions, perhaps framed as proscriptions, that is, as propositions of the form “event or phenomenon x will not occur.”
Why scientists dismiss 'intelligent design' - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Men's faces grew pale as they recalled the proscriptions of Sulla, and saw in the assassination of Cæsar the first act in a similar reign of terror.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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These dreadful lists were called proscriptions, and any one who tried to shelter the victims was treated in the same manner.
Young Folks' History of Rome Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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This approach of "proscriptions" had been used before e.g.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » So Rich People Don’t Count? 2008
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"proscriptions" in Rome, of the revolutionary tribunals in France.
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The Court stated that proscriptions against that conduct have ancient roots.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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And they simply ignored the Puritan and Victorian proscriptions against “indolence,” “extravagance,” and “dissipating luxury.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Prostitutes plied their trade free of legal or moral proscriptions.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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It's a structural organization of society's possessions, mobility, and governance meshing every strata of civilization and the human primordiality beneath that stratification, while on the surface it performs as a theater of legislative proscriptions and prescriptions.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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It's a structural organization of society's possessions, mobility, and governance meshing every strata of civilization and the human primordiality beneath that stratification, while on the surface it performs as a theater of legislative proscriptions and prescriptions.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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