Banishment

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  • n. The act of banishing.
  • n. The state of being banished, exile.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of banishing or compelling a citizen to leave his country or place of residence by political or judicial authority.
  • n. The state of being banished; enforced absence; expulsion; exile, in either a legal or a general sense: as, banishment from thy presence is worse than death.
  • n. The act of driving away or dispelling: as, the banishment of care from the mind.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
  • n. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    exclusion   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    outlawry    expulsion    ostracism    proscription    exile   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    imprisonment    exile    expulsion    confiscation    proscription   
     
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