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banishment

[ ban-ish-muhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

expulsion from a country, place, or position by authoritative decree, or the state of having been expelled:
A royal proclamation ordered the banishment of all priests from the city.
The team’s wide receiver flunked another drug test and will now be subject to a one-year banishment, according to league sources.
the act of driving away, or the state of having been sent away or driven out:
We strive for the preservation of peace and the banishment of tyranny and slavery from the earth.
The decades after World War II were marked not by disarmament and the banishment of war but by ceaseless confrontation and the division of the world into hostile blocs.

While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.

Second offenses would be punished by banishment…that could be appealed after one year.

Hard to say if the banishment will make any impact on the outcome on the medal stand.

Conservatives know deep down that they have to toe the line or risk banishment.

“I truly thought my banishment would only last for a month or so,” she writes.

George I assented to the bill for the banishment of bishop Atterbury, whose great virtues are now remembered.

The first banishment for contravention of this regulation took place on January 6, 1905.

Hadria was incorrigibly flippant about the banishment of important local subjects.

He forbade his subjects, under pain of banishment, to rake up the old causes of dispute.

In the fourth, they provide banishment, and death in case of return, for Jesuits and Popish priests of every denomination.

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