Proscription is valid Scrabble Word

Is proscription a scrabble word?
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12 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for PROSCRIPTION in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of proscribing
condemnation or denunciation of something
the action of forbidding something; banning
The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.
The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.
a decree that prohibits something
rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the act of proscribing; the state of being proscribed

Words related to PROSCRIPTION

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Words that contain PROSCRIPTION

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How to use PROSCRIPTION in a sentence

Their next business was to put out of the way, by proscription, the enemies of this new order of things.
Sonini, that the flesh of swine, in hot climates, is considered unwholesome, and therefore may account for its proscription by the legislators and priests of the East.
He said he knew I would tell you, and you might tell Commodus, who would write all the names on his proscription list.
Let us discriminate, and be shy of absolute proscription.
Douglass resented proscription wherever met with, and resisted it with force when the odds were not too overwhelming.
The inmates were in wonderment and consternation, and, conduplicated evil! they could make no inquiry for one who lay under the ban of a bloody proscription.
An exile even in his boyhood, the proscription and confiscation suffered by his father deprived him of home and patrimony.
At the epoch of the 8th Fructidor, some deputies who had been placed on the proscription list by Robespierre, wished to delay the attack upon him in the Convention.
He was a vehement High Churchman, and looked upon the existing penal proscription under which the Catholics lay as not merely desirable, but indispensable.
On the tomb of Maecenas his luxury is not to be mentioned with his munificence, nor is the proscription to find a place on the monument of Augustus.

The same reasoning will lead to the proscription of machinery.
The principal cause for this proscription by the landlord was, that Dr.
Lefebvre, in his brutal fashion, plundered and burnt as he advanced, and published a proscription list instead of the amnesty promised.
It would be more accurate to say that, for between two and three hundred years, the faithful were under the ban of imperial proscription.
Some of the Jewish Christians of the place, anxious, no doubt, to escape the proscription, now resolved to give up altogether the observance of circumcision.
Still, in the nature of things, proscription on a small scale was inevitable.
He had not, then, escaped notice, and how he escaped proscription it is hard to say.
And to fill up the measure of irritation, a proscription of individuals has been substituted in the room of just trial.
Sulla commanded him to divorce his wife, and on his refusal he was included in the list of the proscription.
During the horrors of the proscription he killed his brother-in-law, Q.
To escape proscription he fled from France to Switzerland, and went thence to the United States, where he played in the orchestra of a New York theatre.
Nothing strengthens men, nothing makes them so hard to hear reason, nothing so drives them to extremity in opinion or in action as persecution or proscription.
They knew that they must work under suspicion, even under proscription.
One might have supposed that on all this proscription and denial of the ordinary rights of human beings the Christian Church would have taken a positive stand.
We thought it our duty to oppose this proscription, when, and where, and as, we constitutionally could.
Political proscription leads necessarily to the filling of offices with incompetent persons, and to a consequent malexecution of official duties.
But how were they received? How were their expectations met? By persecution, proscription, and wholesale plunder, even by that miserable Stuart.
It is however false, that the idea of an united administration carries with it that of a proscription of any other party.
Opposition to acts of power was to be marked by a kind of civil proscription.
Such an universal proscription, upon any pretence, has few examples.
Such a proscription, without even a pretence of delinquency, has none.
They see with horror and alarm that enormous and shameless act of proscription.
The Underground Rail Road never practised the proscription governing other roads, on account of race, color, or previous condition.
After nearly 50 years of proscription and impotence in their own province, they were triumphant and dominant.

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