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  • noun Plural form of proscript.

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Examples

  • These friendly passages with the proscripts in London, as well as the stirring appeal spoken by Garibaldi on behalf of the Poles, did not please foreign Powers.

    The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891

  • I am sorry for you, but I cannot aid you, as I hear other proscripts are out for you, and I am Governor of the State, and cannot aid you in escaping from them by loaning you funds. "

    Memoirs of W. W. Holden, 1911

  • "Other matters have hindered me from looking after these skulking proscripts.

    The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Mayne Reid 1850

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