Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Banishment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Banishment \Ban"ish*ment\, n. [Cf. F. bannissement.]
The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies.
--Johnson.
Round the wide world in banishment we roam. --Dryden.
Syn: Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile;
outlawry.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
banishment
n 1: the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from
society by general consent) [syn: {ostracism}]
2: rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing
someone [syn: {proscription}]
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