banishment
- noun
- /ˈbænɪʃmənt/
- The council decided that his banishment from the village was necessary due to his repeated offenses.
- banishment and imprisonment
Examples
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The queen will reward her with lifetime banishment.
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The government also punished Yi Sungin with banishment to his hometown, Kyongsan-bu, that is, Kaesong.
Academic text (2016) -
Even in banishment, you did not give up trying to save me.
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Something a bit more permanent than banishment might have been a better solution.
Fiction book (1993) -
Drinking for any woman lay beyond the pale: banishment was the only possible result.
Fiction book (1995) -
Either journey with your brother and the Knights Elite, or you can face banishment from the kingdom.
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The traditional tribal punishment for the crime of incest is banishment of the offender.
Academic text (1992) -
The sentence of the chiefs was the perpetual banishment of the murderer and the confiscation of all his property.
Academic text (1992) -
Such punishment at English common law included imprisonment, banishment, and the punitive confiscation of property by the sovereign.
Academic text (2000) -
Adam's punishment featured his banishment from the Garden of Eden, where fruit and food had flowed uninterrupted.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
Official act of sending someone out of a country because they are not allowed to stay
A forced removal of a person from a place or group
Forcing someone or something out of a place quickly
The act of forcing someone to leave a place or group
Leaving someone out of a group on purpose
Sending someone away from their country as a punishment
To exclude someone from a group as punishment or social rejection
Forcing someone to leave their home country as punishment
Sending someone away from a place as punishment to live in the countryside
Leaving someone alone on a remote island as a punishment
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Morphology
Etymology
Banishment comes from the old word ban, which meant a public order or command, like 'to forbid' or 'to send someone away'. So, banishment is when an official order forces a person to leave a place.