Proscriber
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Proscriber is a noun meaning One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.
Meaning
One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.
Example Sentences
I made no connection to the fact that the other proscribers of books were Hitler and the Catholic Church.
In a period of quiet, he had acquired the name of a man of worth; in darker days, he left the renown of a pitiless proscriber.
“In principle,” he declared, “proscription is not only a crime, but a fault; history is full of instances, showing how proscribers have in their turn been forced into the ranks of the proscribed."
Word Forms
- proscribers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include proclaimer, prescriber, provisor, reprehender, criminalizer, preventer.
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