What is another word for Proscribing?

Pronunciation: [pɹəskɹˈa͡ɪbɪŋ] (IPA)

Proscribing is the act of banning or forbidding something. If you're looking to express this concept in different words, you have numerous synonyms at your disposal. For instance, you can use "outlawing" to represent the same meaning. "Banning" is another synonym that denotes prohibition or forbiddance like "Prohibiting". "Denouncing" is often used to signify public disapproval of an act or a policy. "Condemning" also carries the same connotation and can be used interchangeably with "denouncing" or "disapproving". "Censoring" is a more specific synonym that conveys the act of prohibiting or suppressing information, often in the context of government or media regulation. Finally, "tabooing" is another synonym that denotes the act of declaring something prohibited or forbidden by custom or social convention.

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Usage examples for Proscribing

To complain of Moses for Proscribing false religions would be to denounce the use of glass for seedlings because the full-grown plant flourishes in the open air.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
Haller had written to Frederick the Great that a monarch who succeeded in the unhappy enterprise of Proscribing the language of Cicero and Virgil from the republic of letters would raise a deathless monument to his own ignorance.
"The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons"
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
I do not therefore see why the government should hesitate in resolving to put a stop to evils which the people of the Philippines have not ceased to deplore from the time of the conquest, by Proscribing, under the most severe penalties, the power of trading, as now exercised by the provincial magistrates.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes

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