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What does proscribing mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of proscribe
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Energy efficiency marking is good for enabling consumers to make a choice but to start proscribing particular products merely because they use energy in a way that some do not approve seems excessive.
The Commission has sought to address these specific concerns directly, rather than by proscribing internalisation.
The international community is unanimous in proscribing this violation of human dignity.
The arbitrary judicial action of proscribing a book that dares to criticise judges hardly helps the government's case, in its pleadings in Britain, that Chile's courts are capable of judging General Pinochet.
Spain was ruled by an absolute monarch and was dominated by the church, whose Inquisition was still proscribing books and works of art.
It would enable courts to more effectively prevent future offences by proscribing whatever duration was appropriate.

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