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banishment: see exile exile, removal of a national from his or her country, or the civilized parts of it, for a long period of time or for life. Exile may be a forceful expulsion by the government or a voluntary removal by the citizen, sometimes in order to escape punishment. ..... Click the link for more information. . Banishment Acadians America’s lost tribe; suffered expulsion under British. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 2; Am. Lit.: “Evangeline” in Hart, 263]
banished from the Garden of Eden for eating forbidden fruit. [O.T.: Genesis 3:23–24] ordered from Flora’s court. [Gk. Myth.: Flora Symbolica, 172] banished, along with Mowbray, by King Richard. [Br. Lit.: Shakespeare Richard II] cast out from homeland for murdering Abel. [O.T.: Genesis 4:12] former French penal colony off French Guiana. [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 754] site of Napoleon’s first exile (1814). [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 854] Roman symbol of exile. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 451] Sarah orders Abraham to drive them out. [O.T.: Genesis 21:9–13] disinherited by father, Cedric the Saxon. [Br. Lit.: Ivanhoe] banished by jealous stepmother. [Czech. Opera: Smetana, Bartered Bride, Westerman, 404] treasonous man sentenced to live remainder of life at sea. [Am. Lit.: Man Without a Country] exiles himself for killing father and marrying mother. [Gk. Lit.: Oedipus Rex] island of exile for St. John. [N.T.: Revelation 1:9] marries Cymbeline’s daughter; Cymbeline banishes him. [Br. Lit.: Cymbeline] Cromwell’s ejection of royalist MPs (1648). [Br. Hist.: Brewer Handbook, 871] her sylvan exile sets scene for comedy. [Br. Lit.: As You Like It] place of Napoleon’s second exile (1815). [Fr. Hist.: NCE, 2397] place of banishment and exile. [Geography. NCE, 2509–2510] forced march of 18,000 Cherokees westward to Indian Territory (Oklahoma); 4,000 die of disease and exposure (winter, 1838–1839). [Am. Hist.: EB, 2: 808] expelled from Cornwall by King Mark for ten years. [Br. Lit.: Le Morte d’Arthur] lowest caste in India; social outcasts. [Ind. Culture: Brewer Dictionary, 1118] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They then fell upon each other's neck and wept scalding rills down each other's spine in token of their banishment to the Realm of Ineffable Bosh. Now it is the proper business of the public assembly to determine concerning war and peace, making or breaking off alliances, to enact laws, to sentence to death, banishment, or confiscation of goods, and to call the magistrates to account for their behaviour when in office. The marriage of Eleanor Tilney, her removal from all the evils of such a home as Northanger had been made by Henry's banishment, to the home of her choice and the man of her choice, is an event which I expect to give general satisfaction among all her acquaintance. |
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