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pro·scrip·tive [prə(ʊ)ˈskrɪptɪv, Am proʊˈ-] ADV form

proscriptive
restriktiv form

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Many of the most successful projects are built on the belief that girls need less proscriptive, more progressive toys.
www.fastcoexist.com
This isn't intended to be a proscriptive document about horror design but rather short list of ideas for using game mechanics to build tension.
www.gamasutra.com
A codified agreement always runs the risk of limiting a dynamic relationship to a proscriptive and politicised manifesto.
theconversation.com
Numbers have grown in line with the previous government's policy to deliver a comprehensive, if centrally proscriptive, system of neighbourhood policing.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Proscriptive norms, in contrast, comprise the other end of the same spectrum; they are similarly society's unwritten rules about what one should not do.
en.wikipedia.org
They want to allow innovation, but they want to be very proscriptive in managing the risk side of this.
wtop.com
Good business processes on top of pre- or proscriptive tech will also be bad news.
www.itpro.co.uk
New ways of looking at and appreciating creative endeavour -- more fluid and less proscriptive -- are opening to us all.
www.straight.com
A subtler, less proscriptive route to the same goal must surely be found.
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
A seemingly proscriptive verse may be made merely polemical by interpretation, while a seemingly non-proscriptive verse may have actual legal import.
en.wikipedia.org

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