PROSCRIPTIVE
PROSCRIPTIVE. A grammatical or other rule is proscriptive if it forbids the use of a particular feature of language on the grounds that it is incorrect or undesirable: proscribing the use of the verb infer in such a sentence as What are you inferring? and prescribing instead the verb imply. See DESCRIPTIVE AND PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR.
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