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Definition of Proscriptively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proscriptively
Literary usage of Proscriptively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1888)
"... they were to continue to administer it to infants, and to force it proscriptively
on every one—positions to which the council could by no means assent. ..."
2. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"... they were to continue to administer it to infants, and to force it proscriptively
on every one—positions to which the council could by no means assent. ..."
3. American Annals of Education (1832)
"... as well as publishers who have embarked their fortunes in particular works,
it would operate proscriptively, and with manifest injustice. ..."
4. American Annals of Education and Instruction, and Journal of Literary by William Channing Woodbridge, William Russell, William Andrus Alcott (1832)
"... as well as publishers who have embarked their fortunes in particular works,
it would operate proscriptively, and with manifest injustice. ..."
5. A Complete History of Illinois from 1673 to 1873: Embracing the Physical by Alexander Davidson, Bernard Stuvé (1877)
"Judge McRoberts so viewed it, and had exercised both powers, proscriptively, it
was thought. He had removed, from that office, in Madison county, ..."
6. History of the Revolution in England in 1688: Comprising a View of the Reign by James Mackintosh (1834)
"... all the rules of right and wrong, proscriptively acknowledged and acquiesced
in by independent states. The noble Marquis, in his memorable letter, ..."
7. The Great Iron Wheel: Or, Republicanism Backwards and Christianity Reversed by James Robinson Graves (1860)
"Does not a body of Methodist clergy—the General Conference, claim the right,
exclusively, to interpret, and even legislate proscriptively, "matters of faith ..."
8. Woman and Her Era by Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham (1864)
"Or a severe temper in a small class of religious feelings may dispose us
proscriptively and bitterly toward the lighter, but equally legitimate enjoyments ..."
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