All 3 Uses of
proscribe
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- "But it is very strange—now, at least, is it not very strange"—said Defarge, rather pleading with his wife to induce her to admit it, "that, after all our sympathy for Monsieur her father, and herself, her husband's name should be proscribed under your hand at this moment, by the side of that infernal dog's who has just left us?"†
Chpt 2.16proscribed = disallowed or condemned as bad
- Suspected and Denounced enemy of the Republic, Aristocrat, one of a family of tyrants, one of a race proscribed, for that they had used their abolished privileges to the infamous oppression of the people.†
Chpt 3.9 *
- Charles Evremonde, called Darnay, in right of such proscription, absolutely Dead in Law.†
Chpt 3.9proscription = the act of forbidding or condemning; or the thing forbidden or condemned
Definition:
forbid or condemn as bad