proscription

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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.

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Few campaigns are more dangerous than emotional calls for proscription rather than thought. Stephen Jay Gould

All these people had previously been marked down on Archbishop Trolle's proscription list. Source: Internet

Historical background Before 1100, the Catholic Church had already suppressed what they believed to be heresy, usually through a system of ecclesiastical proscription or imprisonment, but without using torture citation and seldom resorting to executions. Source: Internet

By an uncompleted process of terror, by an iniquitous land settlement, by the virtual proscription of the Catholic religion, by the bloody deeds already described, he cut new gulfs between the nations and the creeds. Source: Internet

Augustus' bad conscience for not having objected to Cicero's being put on the proscription list during the Second Triumvirate led him to aid considerably Marcus Minor's career. Source: Internet

Hinard, 2000, pg 846-847 In order to legitimize their own rule, all Senators who survived the proscription were allowed to keep their positions if they swore allegiance to the Triumvirate. Source: Internet

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