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Example sentences for "proscribed"

Lexicographically close words:
prosa; prosaic; prosaically; proscenium; proscribe; proscribing; proscription; proscriptions; proscriptive; prose
  1. He endured great trials for this proscribed class, and was almost a martyr in their behalf, his pastorate having begun just after Nat Turner's insurrection, which caused great persecution and restriction of privileges.

  2. May they who enjoy advantages superior to those of her proscribed race, take heed lest the latter, by the better improvement of the little light enjoyed, rise up in the judgment and condemn them.

  3. Many of the plants mentioned in this book are official in the Pharmacopoeia of India and we see no reason why their use should be proscribed in the Philippines.

  4. After the 18th Fructidor he was proscribed with Suard and Laharpe; but, being perfectly hidden in a friend's house, and never going out except at night, he managed to avoid leaving France.

  5. Is it not enough for you, the wife of a proscribed man?

  6. Deprived of the support of Isnard, Brissot, and Vergniaud, the Jacobins proscribed without difficulty the hero whose writings had mainly assisted in producing the Revolution.

  7. Sensibility, on the contrary, obtained the mastery when the illustrious proscribed was drawn into the anticipation that Madame de Condorcet also might be involved in the bloody catastrophe that threatened him.

  8. Horseflesh, which in every age and country has been proscribed by the civilized nations of Europe and Asia, they devour with peculiar greediness; and this singular taste facilitates the success of their military operations.

  9. Proscribed by the civil and ecclesiastical powers of the empire, the Donatists still maintained in some provinces, particularly in Numidia, their superior numbers; and four hundred bishops acknowledged the jurisdiction of their primate.

  10. But when the primate of Egypt, deserted and proscribed by the Latin church, was left destitute of any foreign support, Constantius despatched two of his secretaries with a verbal commission to announce and execute the order of his banishment.

  11. The emperor was soon convinced, that he had too hastily proscribed the orthodox faith and the exemplary morals of the Novatians, who had dissented from the church in some articles of discipline which were not perhaps essential to salvation.

  12. The University, in 1776, had revived its statute of limpieza and had closed its doors to the proscribed class.

  13. Savary, Lallemand, and Planat having been proscribed by Louis XVIII.

  14. The advocates of truth, proscribed and tortured, could only pour their cries into the ear of the Lord of Sabaoth.

  15. Imperial messengers were proclaiming the emperor’s decree, and calling upon the people to bring the proscribed works to the magistrates.

  16. It had never been printed, and the cost of manuscript copies was so great that few but wealthy men or nobles could procure it; and furthermore, being strictly proscribed by the church, it had had a comparatively narrow circulation.

  17. The work accomplished by these men, proscribed and outlawed by the rulers of this world, can never perish.

  18. No charge could be brought against the moral character of this proscribed class.

  19. On the 3rd September they landed at Carúpano, where they found that they had been proscribed as traitors who had deserted their comrades, while Rivas and Piar had taken the command.

  20. Certainly it was unlikely he would; for in that part priests moved freely, the authorities winked at their presence, and it was only within sight of the walls of Tralee or of Galway that the law which proscribed them was enforced.

  21. Thomas Hansford was among those who were proscribed fugitives from the vengeance of the loyalists.

  22. A proscribed rebel, an outcast from home, her father's loyal prejudices were such that she could never hope to unite her destiny with Hansford.

  23. Your lives are proscribed by those who have basely charged your patriotism as treason, and your defence of your country as rebellion.

  24. The proscribed rebel must be an outlaw to Virginia Temple's heart.

  25. They had soon however a terrible proof of the danger that still was to wait on such momentous aberrations from the proscribed line.

  26. The strict enforcement of subscription to this creed gave rise to a good deal of persecution against those who were called Crypto-Calvinists, or suspected of a secret bias towards the proscribed doctrine.

  27. Then he told the people from the rostrum that he had now proscribed all that he remembered, and those whom he had forgotten must come into some future proscription.

  28. Even the son and grandson of those proscribed were deprived of the privileges of citizenship, and their property was confiscated.

  29. On the whole he legislated as little as he could and proscribed as few as he could.

  30. But he who killed a proscribed man, even if it was a slave who slew his master or a son his father, was to receive two talents.

  31. Punishments were proclaimed for anyone who should hide one of the proscribed or bury his body; rewards were promised for all who killed or denounced them.

  32. Death was ordained for every one who should harbour or save a proscribed person, even his own brother, son, or parent.

  33. He was the son of a member of the Irish Commons, proscribed for his patriotism and religion in 1641, by Anna O'Moore, daughter of the organizer of the Catholic Confederation.

  34. A Parliament was next convoked in his name, in which the Butlers and citizens of Waterford were proscribed as traitors.

  35. Under the French rule, Harlequin's merry occupation had been proscribed in the Great Theatres, from a care, it was alleged, for the dignity of man.

  36. Rehabilitation of Saturninus and Marius Lastly, they did not hesitate now to name once more in public the long-proscribed names of the heroes and martyrs of the democracy, and to celebrate their memory.

  37. Those alone who had put to death the proscribed for money remained, as was reasonable, still under attainder; and Milo, the most daring condottiere of the senatorial party, was excluded from the general pardon.

  38. It is a significant trait, that a distinguished teacher of literature, the freedman Staberius Eros, allowed the children of the proscribed to attend his course gratuitously.

  39. On the other hand great exertions were made to restore to the children of the proscribed the political rights withdrawn from them (691), and the heads of the senatorial party were incessantly subjected to personal attacks.

  40. The next year peace was effected with Sextus, a son of the great Pompey, who had been proscribed as one of the murderers of Cæsar, though he had really had no share in that deed.

  41. He was proscribed by the triumvirs at the same time that Cicero was, but was fortunate enough to escape and subsequently to be placed under the protection of Augustus.

  42. Proscribed by you during life, they will proscribe you through all time.

  43. The real cancan, which was a capital national dance, the only one which possessed the elements of spontaneity and of the picturesque, was consigned to the outskirts of civilisation, with other contraband goods proscribed by custom.

  44. Chardel's order proscribed no limits, it cost them no more to do this.

  45. Miss Woolf neither questioned the fact, nor hesitated to imperil herself and family by receiving the proscribed fugitive within her doors.

  46. When they proscribed the religious orders, they included in the same fate those which had vows and those which had not.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proscribed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bound; conditioned; confined; contraband; cramped; disciplined; finite; illegal; limited; narrow; patented; prescribed; qualified; restricted; strait; straitened; taboo; unlawful