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banishment

[ US /ˈbænɪʃmənt/ ]
[ UK /bˈænɪʃmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
    the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry
  2. rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

How To Use banishment In A Sentence

  • I would also confront many stereotypes about suicide, a word that means self-murder, an act that some religious faiths once equated with eternal banishment from heaven.
  • The bread of banishment, the consciousness of human pain, extension, time, numbers are the steps by which this poetry endeavors to ascend to a transcendental metaphysic.
  • Elleanor Eldridge, on the one hand, is the inheritress of African blood, with all its heirship of wo and shame; and the subject of wrong and banishment, by her Indian maternity on the other. Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge
  • Momentum has been building in film for a complete banishment of human beings from roles of protagonism for a long time. Joshua David Stein: WALL-E and The Fall of Man
  • S: 6, in fine), Here -- in this his banishment to Patmos; not thereby denying that there must have been a life-long thlipsis for such an one as the Apostle John, but only affirming that the words found their most emphatic fulfilment now. Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia.
  • It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really commutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice -- hell's great triumvirate -- to banishment eternal. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
  • ADD andsee also anxiety; depressionpublic places, social skills in benefits ofbig picture vs. details andchallenges tophysiological needs andsocial contracts andthree Ps oftransitions andpublic space punctuality punishment banishment ashyperactivity andimpulsivity andineffectiveness ofshunning as“putting out the candle,” It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend
  • The error was clearly the real cause of the banishment; what precisely this _error_ was Ovid does not reveal, but it appears from _Tr_ II 103-4 and _Tr_ III v 49-50 to have been the witnessing of some action that was embarrassing to the imperial family. The Last Poems of Ovid
  • I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles; needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what. King Lear
  • If you suspect you will be facing a greater daemon spare no effort to acquire the Banishment spell.
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