Banishment

[f. as prec. + -MENT.]

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1. The action of authoritatively expelling from the country; a state of exile; expatriation.

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1507. Bk. Gd. Mann. (W. de W.), B iij. For he … hadde kepte hym from banysshement.

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1607. Shaks., Cor., IV. iii. 22. The Nobles receyue so to heart, the Banishment of that worthy Coriolanus.

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1776. Gibbon, Decl. & F., I. xvi. 402. A sentence of banishment was pronounced.

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1855. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1875), IV. xxxviii. 333. Some exiles contrived to avoid going to their places of banishment.

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2. gen. The action of peremptorily sending away; a state of enforced absence; dismissal.

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1535. Coverdale, Ps. cxx. 5. Wo is me y^t my banishment endureth so longe.

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a. 1744. Pope, in Lady Montague’s Lett., 23, I. 70. I wish … you might pass to your banishment by the most pleasant way.

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1832. Ht. Martineau, Ella of Gar., ii. 23. Their banishment was a sign that dinner was ready.

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