proscribe
verb (used with object)
to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
proscribes
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present tense formof proscribe (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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County’s requirements will go beyond what the state proscribes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
The Fifth Amendment proscribes the government from depriving any person “of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2017
A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that “Chinese law proscribes any form of hacking activity.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2010
“The Constitution proscribes government discrimination on the basis of race, and state-provided education is no exception.”
From Washington Post
Gratitude,—that honesty of the soul which is even greater than social honesty, since it is regulated by no express law, and that most uncommon virtue, since it proscribes selfishness,—was pre-eminently conspicuous in Lord Byron.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
