Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Banishment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Banishment.
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- noun archaic
banishment ;exile
Etymologies
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Examples
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What lies before me but imprisonment, or that worse than death, exilement from my native land.
In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Lucy Foster Madison 1898
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Surrounded by a kind and generous people, the ills that are incident to an exilement from home, have been mitigated, if not wholly removed.
Journal of the Sixty-eight Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. Held in St. Paul's Church , Richmond on the 20th, 21st and 22nd May, 1863. Episcopal Church. Diocese of Virginia 1863
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"I do not believe self-exilement is the true remedy for the wrongs of the negro.
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"And is this, in the estimation of their sons, an offense, a crime meriting exilement?
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875
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