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Proscriptive   Listen
adjective
Proscriptive  adj.  Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Proscriptive" Quotes from Famous Books



... hedged about with difficulties, as the logical result of such action must be the enfranchisement of all ostracised classes; not only the white women of the entire country, but the slave women of the South. Though our Senators and Representatives had an honest aversion to any proscriptive legislation against loyal women, in view of their varied and self-sacrificing work during the war, yet the only way they could open the constitutional door just wide enough to let the black man pass in, was to introduce the ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage



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