'proscribing' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of forbidding something, usually by law or official regulations. For example, "The government has proscribed the sale of certain guns in order to reduce violence in the country."
For it has also exacerbated ethnic tensions by proscribing any redrawing of congressional districts that weakens the clout of minority voting blocks.
To an extent, America and its Western allies have encouraged the comparison, by proscribing the Tigers as a terrorist group.
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.
The power of proscribing organisations in Hong Kong could only be exercised if the secretary for security reasonably believed, in conformity with the standards of the international covenant on civil and political rights, that it was necessary in the interests of national security, public safety or public order to ban that organisation.
The government is looking at proscribing a further 20, which might, it frets, prove a threat to "national unity .If this is continuity, it is also an attempt to disguise it.
Yet the point of proscribing images is to ensure that they do not become objects of worship in themselves.
There are now more legal drugs on sale than were even dreamed of when the first global drug laws were written: the 1961 and 1971 UN drug conventions proscribe just 234.
Related: Budapest autumn: hollowing out democracy on the edge of Europe Hungary abolished the death penalty – after this was proscribed by the EU charter of fundamental rights – following the collapse of communism in 1989.
The group is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UN because it operates as a front organisation for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group that executed the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai.
Usually its nothing fancy: I tend to proscribe an all-body workout using high reps and light weights.
SIR — It is a scandal worthy of Suetonius that A-Level ancient history has been proscribed in English schools.
