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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The Eighth Amendment proscribes “cruel and unusual punishments.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2018
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
“The FTC Act proscribes — and the 1st Amendment does not protect — deceptive and misleading advertisements,” U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2015
The state now recognizes those practices as likely to produce false identifications and proscribes them in a law passed with bipartisan support this year.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2010
Hence, daily life also proscribes forgetting, in certain connections, and the difference between the popular and the psychoanalytic conception of these errors appears to be removed.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
