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Proscription

The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.

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Anathematization 76% connected

The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation.

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Deportation 76% connected

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

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Disbarment 76% connected

Act of disbarring.

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Ejection 76% connected

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

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Enjoining 76% connected

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Enjoinment 76% connected

Direction; command; authoritative admonition.

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Excision 76% connected

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

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Exclusion 76% connected

The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…

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Excommunication 76% connected

The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of…

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Exile 76% connected

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's…

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Expatriation 76% connected

The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.

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Expulsion 76% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Injunction 76% connected

The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.

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Interdict 76% connected

To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

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Interdiction 76% connected

The act of interdicting; prohibition; prohibiting decree; curse; interdict.

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Relegation 76% connected

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

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Riddance 76% connected

The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

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Rustication 76% connected

The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the…

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Transportation 76% connected

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

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Decree 76% connected

An order from one having authority, deciding what is to be done by a subordinate; also, a determination by one having power, deciding what is to be d…

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Edict 76% connected

A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement;…

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Fiat 76% connected

An authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.

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Order 76% connected

Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system

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Rejection 76% connected

Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

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Rescript 76% connected

The answer of an emperor when formallyconsulted by particular persons on some difficult question; hence, an edict or decree.

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Disallow 74% connected

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

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Disallow 74% connected

To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.

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Ban 92% connected

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

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Banishment 92% connected

The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

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Prohibition 92% connected

The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

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