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Example sentences for "proscription"

Lexicographically close words:
prosaically; proscenium; proscribe; proscribed; proscribing; proscriptions; proscriptive; prose; prosector; prosecute
  1. So you thought him, And tooke his voyce who should be prickt to dye In our blacke Sentence and Proscription Ant.

  2. Cicero is dead, and by that order of proscription Had you your Letters from your wife, my Lord?

  3. The king had declared that he would sooner perish under their axe (he too well saw what was preparing for him) than give his sanction to the iniquitous act of proscription under which those innocent people were to be transported.

  4. On this proscription of the clergy a principal part of the ostensible quarrel between the king and those ministers had turned.

  5. To all cities which had taken part with the Marians the proscription made its way.

  6. The only man at home of any military reputation was the prætor Crassus, who had amassed an enormous fortune by buying up property at famine prices during the Proscription of Sulla, and in speculative measures since.

  7. The whole arrangement had been dictated by secret instructions from Fernando, and proscription and persecution continued as active as ever.

  8. Let Mataafa leave Malie for any other district in Samoa; it should be construed as an act of submission and the confiscation and proscription instantly recalled.

  9. He had nothing to do with the silly proscription of the Mataafas; he has always disliked the measure; and it occurred to him at last that he might get rid of this dangerous absurdity and at the same time reap a further advantage.

  10. This decree completed the proscription of the person, by the proscription of the name.

  11. This list, which belongs to History, having served as the base of the proscription list, will be found complete in the sequel to this book to be published hereafter.

  12. This restored to him his estates, for he was included in the Confiscation, Proscription and Banishment Act of 1778.

  13. By the passing of the act of proscription the door was shut against me in my own country, where I own it would have been my wish to have ended my days.

  14. Instead of repealing the proscription and banishment acts, as justice and good policy required, they manifested a spirit to place the humbled and unhappy Loyalists beyond the pale of human sympathy.

  15. The old soldiers took a hopeful view, and the great wrong of Reconstruction was not so much in the enfranchising of the ignorant slave as in the proscription and humiliation of the better whites with the alienated negro as an instrument.

  16. He knew that there would be a temporary delay in restoring former relations with the central government, but political proscription and humiliation were not expected.

  17. But on the whole there was little violence, the forces of social proscription at length sufficing to drive out the obnoxious teachers.

  18. The discipline of the League was brought to bear on indifferent black citizens, and by threats of violence or of proscription many were driven to the polls.

  19. The effect of the proscription by the test oaths of the only men who were fit for office was distinctly bad.

  20. Yet it would have required a special law of exemption for each of them in order to protect them from the proscription which was to be visited upon the ex-Confederates.

  21. At this time the Johnson plan promised to be one of merciless proscription of the prominent men.

  22. It was in some degree the hope of this that made them willing to submit to proscription and exclusion for a while and support the reconstruction measures of the President.

  23. Its views are but the reflex of popular opinion, and, as long as we tolerate bigotry and proscription in our popular elections, we must expect that those who are supposed to represent us will follow the bad example thus set them.

  24. A new proscription in Rome itself, and a declaration of war against the murderers of Caesar, were the means by which they proposed to effect it.

  25. He endeavoured to establish his dominion by popular measures; and although his army must still have been his main support, yet no proscription was granted to satisfy it.

  26. When the Emperor Hadrian forbade the Jewish people from approaching the precincts of the city, the Nazarenes escaped from the common proscription by disavowing the Mosaic law.

  27. He promised the cancellation of all debts, the proscription of the wealthy, and the general application of the rule of "the spoils to the victors.

  28. The murderers of Caesar, and those who had either instigated them secretly or applauded them afterward, were included in a proscription list, drawn by retributive justice on the model of Sylla's.

  29. On him had fallen the odium of the proscription and the stain of the massacres.

  30. By an edict of his own he restored the children of the victims of Sylla's proscription to their civil rights and their estates, the usurpers being mostly in Pompey's camp.

  31. Four thousand seven hundred persons fell in the proscription of Sylla, all men of education and fortune.

  32. Robespiere had placed himself at the head of a conspiring Common-Hall, which dared to dictate laws of blood and proscription to the Convention.

  33. The dread of a repetition of the edict of Proscription will cause even the supporters of the Robber Barons to prefer the election of the people's candidates, than to face the results of the election of a Plutocrat.

  34. I have started the execution of the edict of proscription a day in advance of the schedule.

  35. A hundred flaming oil wells lit by the torch of the incendiary, hired by his gold, wrote his proscription on the scroll of high heaven.

  36. His last public speech was in behalf of political refugees seeking shelter in France from the proscription of arbitrary power.

  37. This confiscation, where Liberty itself disappeared, was the terrible climax of that proscription which now enveloped his friends and his family.

  38. I could not go with the Republican Party, however, because after the death of Abraham Lincoln it had intrenched itself in the proscription of Southern men.

  39. The gospel of proscription ruled in Congress.

  40. In the generation which elapsed from the death of the Earl of Ulster, or rather from the first avowal of the policy of proscription in 1342, the native tribes had on all sides and continuously gained on the descendants of their invaders.

  41. Yet the virus of national proscription outlived all the experience of its futility.

  42. When the Mormon communities, in 1888, were being crushed by proscription and confiscation and the righteous bigotries of Federal officials, Frank J.

  43. I took advantage of her curiosity to lead up to an explanation of how the proscription of polygamy was driving young Mormons into the practice, instead of frightening them from it.

  44. Proscription no longer made the authorities of the Church strong by persecution--hardy chiefs of a poverty-stricken people--leaders as sensible of the obligations of power as their followers were faithful in their allegiance of duty.

  45. This decree consisted merely of a proscription list, on which were inscribed the names of some of the wealthiest men in the Hanse Towns, Hanover, and Westphalia.

  46. When one party triumphed, proscription followed, and the guillotine was put in requisition, and blood flowed in torrents.

  47. The Committee begin with the statutes of the States where this proscription prevails.

  48. And yet this proscription is adopted and enforced in the courts of the United States.

  49. This proscription is not confined to slaves.

  50. From examples of history the way is easy to an inquiry into the grounds on which this proscription is founded.

  51. It may be proper afterwards to glance at the associate examples of history, and also to endeavor to comprehend the reasons on which the proscription has been vindicated.

  52. It would be impossible for the people of the United States to look upon any proscription of them with indifference.

  53. Acts of proscription and sentences of banishment and death were passed in the cabinet of a tyrant.

  54. But they were divided among themselves, persecuted their adversaries with proscription and banishment, thus making the exiles a perpetual source of danger to the State, and they were hated by the populace because of the war taxes.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proscription" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anathema; ban; banishment; blackball; blacklist; blasphemy; boundary; boycott; censure; confinement; continence; contraband; conviction; damnation; denial; denunciation; discipline; doom; embargo; exclusion; execration; imprecation; index; inhibition; injunction; interdict; judgment; law; limit; limitation; malediction; moderation; obstruction; ostracism; prescription; prevention; prohibition; proscription; qualification; rap; refusal; rejection; repression; restraint; restriction; sentence; statute; suppression; taboo; thundering; veto; zoning