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Definition of Proscriptions
1. proscription [n] - See also: proscription
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proscriptions
Literary usage of Proscriptions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"THE proscriptions These words were a signal to his adherents, and before the
names of the destined citizens were publicly announced many a private vengeance ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1907)
"THE proscriptions These words were a signal to his adherents, and before the
names of the destined citizens were publicly announced many a private vengeance ..."
3. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1882)
"In Rome, it seems, the Limit of proscriptions had ceased long before that date.
Perhaps tign^st0 we may be justified in assuming that no more than the '1'a. ..."
4. A General History of the World by Victor Duruy, Edwin Augustus Grosvenor, Louis Edwin Van Norman (1912)
"proscriptions in Rome. Sulpicius and Cinna (88-84). ... His proscriptions and
Dictatorship (84-79).—At that moment Sulla was returning from Asia to avenge ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In the proscriptions which followed it is characteristic of Antony that he was
by so much the more insolent, as he was the less cruel, of the triumvirs. ..."
6. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1882)
"It was natural that outside of Rome, in the old thirty-five tribes as well as
among the new citizens, the proscriptions should begin later and last longer ..."
7. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"These events are succeeded by the oligarchical reaction under Sulla, his massacres
and proscriptions; the abortive attempts of Lepidus and Brutus (father of ..."
8. European History: An Outline of Its Development by George Burton Adams (1899)
"Civil War and the " proscriptions. ... Marius but in a somewhat more regular way,
posting up lists of those who were to be killed, the " proscriptions. ..."
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