proscription

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.

   He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription [...]

2. 2
   noun

   rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

3. 3
   noun

   a decree that prohibits something

4. 4
   noun

   A prohibition.

5. 5
   noun

   The act of proscribing, or its result.

6. 6
   noun

   A decree or law that prohibits.

Etymology

From Middle English proscripcion, from Latin prōscrīptiō, from prōscrībō (originally "publish in writing"), from prō- and scrībō (“write”).