Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who denounces; one who dooms to destruction.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

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  • noun One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

Etymologies

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proscribe +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Chip was a confirmed vegetarian, a proscriber of all animal nourishment, of all fermented liquors, half a Mussulman, half a Brahman.

    Robur the Conqueror 2003

  • The jailer of the press, he affected the patronage of letters; the proscriber of books, he encouraged philosophy; the persecutor of authors and the murderer of printers, he yet pretended to the protection of learning.

    Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

  • The triumvir and proscriber had descended to us in a more hideous form than they now appear, if the emperor had not taken care to make friends of him and Horace.

    Dedication Vergil 1909

  • The jailer of the Press, he affected the patronage of letters—the proscriber of books, he encouraged philosophy—the persecutor of authors, and the murderer of printers, he yet pretended to the protection of learning!

    II. The Character of Napoleon 1906

  • Chip was a confirmed vegetarian, a proscriber of all animal nourishment, of all fermented liquors, half a Mussulman, half a

    Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne 1866

  • He once actually slaughtered upon an altar, a large body of his prisoners; and such was the contempt with which he was regarded by some of that number, that, when led out to death, they saluted their other proscriber, Anthony, with military honors, acknowledging merit even in an enemy, but Augustus they passed with scornful silence, or with loud reproaches.

    The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • And as to indignity, 'tis shame to the proscriber not to the proscribed, my love! "

    The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History Grace Aguilar 1831

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