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Ban.
Blacklist:
Progress is a blacklist - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"
Censor:
Stands to the censor's scythe - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
What later folly or design shall never censor - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"
Censored truth as pale as fear - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
Censored lies that mimic truth - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
Contract.
Covenant:
The covenant of a clearer sight - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
The covenant of timelessness with time - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"
Made a sable covenant with grief - Thomas Hood "The Two Peacocks of Bedfont"
The glass doors and their covenant - David Hornibrook "Pony"
A new covenant of hospitality - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"
Decree.
Doctrine.
Dystopia:
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Edict:
Our knife clicked like an edict - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
The edict that traps my hunger in cages - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"
Buried you in cold edicts - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Shut my eyes to the edicts - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
Fiat:
Whose simplest fiat is the birth of worlds - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
The fiat summoning day - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
Whose fiat lulls the storm - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
The fiat of that midnight hour - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Govern.
Injunction:
An injunction from a distant government - Emily Berry "Unexhausted Time"
This injunction repeat, that they may clearly understand it - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
One injunction I must first enforce - John Stockdale Hardy "Palace of Fantasy Canto I"
Inquisition:
Sweet inquisition of light - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
Chosen by an inquisitor of structures - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
The inquisition yet would serve the law - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"
Interrogate.
Judge/Judgment.
Judicial:
The black judicial formula devised by bloody thrones - B. Simmons "Westminster-Hall and the Works of Art, (on a Free Admission Day)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Justice.
Law.
Legal/Illegal.
Legitimate/Illegitimate.
License:
Who accords to his language the license to outrage - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Get one license to unloose my soul and shout - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
To license lust with all a lecher's rage - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Beneath the rain's unlicensed joys - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"
Confiscated our cabaret licenses - David Wojahn "Another Epistle to Frank O'Hara"
Mandate.
Mandatory:
Mandatory nostalgia for the northern star - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Permit.
Precedent: See Precede.
Principle.
Restrict.
Statute:
Under the masonry of state and statute - Seamus Heaney "The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream"
The statute of the wind - Pablo Neruda "Wandering Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Taboo:
I have decreed them all taboo - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"
Sweet taboo silhouetted against red temptation - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Waiver:
Sign a waiver for the possibility of death - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"
Waived upon a concordat's breach - Wamuhu Mwaura "Circumbendibus" [Strange Horizons 7 April 2025]
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Ban.
Blacklist:
Progress is a blacklist - Remica Bingham-Risher "The Lose Your Mother Suite VI. 'across the surface of my studied speech'"
Censor:
Stands to the censor's scythe - Mina Loy "Apology of Genius"
What later folly or design shall never censor - Adrienne Rich "David's Boyhood"
Censored truth as pale as fear - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
Censored lies that mimic truth - Lola Ridge "The Tidings (Easter 1916)"
Contract.
Covenant:
The covenant of a clearer sight - Zona Gale "In J. P. P.'s Metre"
The covenant of timelessness with time - Robert Hayden "Words in the Mourning Time"
Made a sable covenant with grief - Thomas Hood "The Two Peacocks of Bedfont"
The glass doors and their covenant - David Hornibrook "Pony"
A new covenant of hospitality - Henry van Dyke "The Camp-Fires of My Friend"
Decree.
Doctrine.
Dystopia:
My strong strategy for the future dystopia - Jameka Williams "Self-Care is a Psy-Op"
Edict:
Our knife clicked like an edict - Raymond McDaniel "Assault to Abjury"
The edict that traps my hunger in cages - Mark McMorris "Prayer to Shadows on My Wall"
Buried you in cold edicts - Pablo Neruda "The Judges" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Shut my eyes to the edicts - Isaac Rosenberg "Moses"
Fiat:
Whose simplest fiat is the birth of worlds - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]
The fiat summoning day - Edward Dowden "Musicians"
Whose fiat lulls the storm - Felicia Hemans "England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism"
The fiat of that midnight hour - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Govern.
Injunction:
An injunction from a distant government - Emily Berry "Unexhausted Time"
This injunction repeat, that they may clearly understand it - Euripedes "Helen" transl. by Michael Wodhull
One injunction I must first enforce - John Stockdale Hardy "Palace of Fantasy Canto I"
Inquisition:
Sweet inquisition of light - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"
Chosen by an inquisitor of structures - Wallace Stevens "To an Old Philosopher in Rome"
The inquisition yet would serve the law - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Protest"
Interrogate.
Judge/Judgment.
Judicial:
The black judicial formula devised by bloody thrones - B. Simmons "Westminster-Hall and the Works of Art, (on a Free Admission Day)" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLIX, v.LVI, Nov. 1844]
Justice.
Law.
Legal/Illegal.
Legitimate/Illegitimate.
License:
Who accords to his language the license to outrage - Bulwer Lytton publishing as Owen Meredith "Lucile: Part I Canto II"
Get one license to unloose my soul and shout - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"
To license lust with all a lecher's rage - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Beneath the rain's unlicensed joys - Helen Hay Whitney "As a Pale Child"
Confiscated our cabaret licenses - David Wojahn "Another Epistle to Frank O'Hara"
Mandate.
Mandatory:
Mandatory nostalgia for the northern star - Emilio Villa "1941 Piece" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Permit.
Precedent: See Precede.
Principle.
Restrict.
Statute:
Under the masonry of state and statute - Seamus Heaney "The Unacknowledged Legislator's Dream"
The statute of the wind - Pablo Neruda "Wandering Albatross" transl. by Jack Schmitt
Taboo:
I have decreed them all taboo - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"
Sweet taboo silhouetted against red temptation - Terese Mason Pierre "'Streets,' by Persephone"
Waiver:
Sign a waiver for the possibility of death - Anne Carly Abad "Exchange"
Waived upon a concordat's breach - Wamuhu Mwaura "Circumbendibus" [Strange Horizons 7 April 2025]
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
