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Proscription vs Outlawry - What's the difference?

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Proscription is a related term of outlawry.


As nouns the difference between proscription and outlawry

is that proscription is a prohibition while outlawry is (legal|historical) a declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.

proscription

English

(wikipedia proscription)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A prohibition.
  • (history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
  • * 1837 , Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb,
    • He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription [...]
  • The act of proscribing, or its result.
  • A decree or law that prohibits.

    • Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with prescription

    Related terms

    * proscribe * proscriptive * proscriptively

    outlawry

    English

    Noun

    (outlawries)
  • (legal, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction.
  • The action characteristic of an outlaw; lawlessness.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 134:
  • *:Through this ‘passing-out ceremony’ the apprentice became both proven in reliability and bound, Faust-like, to the rebel cause by his act of outlawry .