Proscription Definition

Proscription Sentence Examples

• The proscription of the Jewish religion was withdrawn and the Temple restored to them.

• He was involved in the proscription of the Girondists and imprisoned until the 9th Thermidor.

• But Waterloo and the Restoration led to a second and final proscription of his father; and though not himself cashiered, Sadi was purposely told off for the merest drudgeries of his service.

• On this account Clinton has generally been regarded as the originator of the "spoils system" in New York; but he was really opposed to the wholesale proscription of opponents that became such a feature of American politics in later years.

• Robespierre, who hated the Girondists, whose lustre had so long obscured his own, had proposed to includethem in the proscription lists of September; the Mountain to a man desired their overthrow.