Expulsion
[ɪk'spʌlʃ(ə)n;ek-] or [ɪk'spʌlʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.
(n.) The state of being expelled or driven out.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Expelling, driving out.[2]. Ejection, extrusion, banishment.
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Definition
n. the act of expelling: banishment.—v.t. Expulse′ (obs.) to expel forcibly eject.—adj. Expul′sive able or serving to expel.
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Examples
- It had been exasperated by the expulsion of its representative from England upon the execution of Louis, and it declared war against England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Orders of the government prohibited the expulsion of the negroes from the protection of the army, when they came in voluntarily. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- For a teacher to seek her alliance in any crisis of insubordination was equivalent to securing her own expulsion. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It existed before the expulsion of the kings, and in the time of the kings it was the king who nominated the senators. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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