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proscriber

noun

Etymology

From proscribe + -er.

  1. derived from prōscrībō — “to proclaim, forbid, banish”
  2. inherited from proscriben
  3. formed as proscriber — “proscribe + -er”

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

    • In a period of quiet, he had acquired the name of a man of worth; in darker days, he left the renown of a pitiless proscriber.
    • “In principle,” he declared, “proscription is not only a crime, but a fault; history is full of instances, showing how proscribers have in their turn been forced into the ranks of the proscribed."
    • I made no connection to the fact that the other proscribers of books were Hitler and the Catholic Church.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA