Associations to the word «Proscription»

Wiktionary

PROSCRIPTION, noun. A prohibition.
PROSCRIPTION, noun. (history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
PROSCRIPTION, noun. The act of proscribing, or its result.
PROSCRIPTION, noun. A decree or law that prohibits.

Dictionary definition

PROSCRIPTION, noun. A decree that prohibits something.
PROSCRIPTION, noun. Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne