Prohibition vs Proscription - What's the difference?
prohibition | proscription |
An act of prohibiting]], forbidding, disallowing, or [[proscribe, proscribing something.
A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
A prohibition.
(history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
* 1837 , Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb,
The act of proscribing, or its result.
A decree or law that prohibits.
In history terms the difference between prohibition and proscription
is that prohibition is any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal while proscription is decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.As a proper noun Prohibition
is any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.prohibition
English
(wikipedia prohibition)Noun
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* (l)Antonyms
* permissionproscription
English
(wikipedia proscription)Noun
(en noun)- He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription [...]
