Banishment
['bænɪʃmənt]
Definition
(noun.) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone.
(noun.) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); 'the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Exile, expatriation, ostracism, expulsion, proscription.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Outlawry, ostracism, expatriation, expulsion, persecution
ANT:Remaining, cherishing, fostering, retaining
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Evil pursues the unfortunate dreamer. If you are banished to foreign lands, death will be your portion at an early date. To banish a child, means perjury of business allies. It is a dream of fatality.
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Examples
- My family may consider it banishment, if they please; but I am a wife and mother, and I never will desert Mr. Micawber. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Alas, this isolation--this banishment from my kind! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Meagre and spare, like all the other rooms, it was even uglier and grimmer than the rest, by being the place of banishment for the worn-out furniture. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The kind of banishment he now experienced arose from other causes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was banished from it, and you were the serpent who caused my banishment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Exiles notoriously feed much on hopes, and are unlikely to stay in banishment unless they are obliged. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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