banishment
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editbanishment (countable and uncountable, plural banishments)
- The act of banishing.
- The judge pronounced banishment upon the war criminal.
- The state of being banished, exile.
- He has been in banishment from his home country for well over four years.
- 2006, James Fenton, Jerusalem:
- You are in error. / This is terror. / This is your banishment. This land is mine. / This is what you earn. / This is the Law of No Return. / This is the sour dough, this the sweet wine. / This is my history, this my race / And this unhappy man threw acid in my face.
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editThe act of banishing
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The state of being banished, exile
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