proscription
A prohibition.
Noun
- A prohibition.
Synonyms: forbidding forbode sanction
- 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 [...] - 1837, Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb, Tacitus' Annals, book 1:
Synonyms: attaintment judgement condemnation conviction proscription
- The act of proscribing, or its result.
- A decree or law that prohibits.
Origin
From Middle English proscripcion, from Latin prōscrīptiō, from prōscrībō (originally "publish in writing"), from prō- and scrībō (“write”).