proscriptive

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Viewed this way, minding our p’s and q’s is less about proscriptive notions of correctness, and more about mindfulness, self-discovery and proper conduct.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

But it’s to Leaf’s credit that there’s nothing simplistic, and certainly nothing proscriptive, about how that closure takes place.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2023

I don't want to be too proscriptive to what listeners should be seeing or feeling or thinking.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2022

I think the beginning was a long time ago for anything and everything, so the first step is never proscriptive or formulated.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2022

Yet to whom the Bourbons were indebted for the omission of their names from the proscriptive roll we cannot tell.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn