proscription

Other forms of proscription

plural

proscriptions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about proscription

What does proscription mean?

proscription means "a decree that prohibits something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proscription?

proscription has 3 syllables: pro-scrip-tion. The stress falls on "scrip". In IPA it is /pɹoʊˈskɹɪpʃən/.

What is another word for proscription?

Close synonyms include prohibition, ban, banishment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is proscription a common word?

proscription is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with proscription?

7 words rhyme with proscription. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.