Banishing
[bæniʃɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Banish
Edited by Abraham
Examples
- In town she returned to preoccupations which, for the moment, had the happy effect of banishing troublesome thoughts. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And the mind has often a wonderful and almost superhuman power of banishing disease and weakness and calling out a hidden strength. Plato. The Republic.
Edited by Abraham