Proscribe is a synonym of repudiate.
In lang=en terms the difference between proscribe and repudiate
is that proscribe is to banish or exclude while repudiate is to be repudiated.
As verbs the difference between proscribe and repudiate
is that proscribe is to forbid or prohibit while repudiate is to reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
proscribe
English
Usage notes
* The latter pronunciation is used when added distinction from (prescribe) is desired.
Verb
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proscrib)
To forbid or prohibit.
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To denounce.
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To banish or exclude.
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Usage notes
* Avoid the erroneous construction “proscribe against”; substitute “proscribe” alone or the phrase “pre scribe against”.
Antonyms
* prescribe
Related terms
* proscription
* proscriptive
repudiate
English
Verb
To reject the truth or validity of something; to deny.
To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown.
To refuse to pay or honor (a debt).
To be repudiated.
Quotations
: "Chaucer . . . not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it"
: "If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America."
1848': '... she dictated to Briggs a furious answer in her own native tongue, '''repudiating Mrs. Rawdon Crawley altogether...' — William Makepeace Thackeray, '' , Chapter XXXIV.
"The seventeenth century sometimes seems for more than a moment to gather up and to digest into its art all the experience of the human mind which (from the same point of view) the later centuries seem to have been partly engaged in repudiating ." , Andrew Marvell .
"The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution." --
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