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exilic

exilic

1 9.9
Relating to people living away from their home because others forced them to leave
  • adjective
  • /ɪɡˈzɪlɪk/
  • Formal
: exílico
  • The exilic period for the Jewish people in Babylon is a significant event in their history.
  • post-exilic
  • exilic and diasporic

Examples

  • Yet, Mustafa Sa'eed is also an exilic subject according to Madelaine Hron's understanding of the concept in terms of "alienation" (Hron, 2009: 12) from the host culture.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Bernd Janowski puts the matter well: "Yet it was during this exilic night that Israel gained a fundamentally new perspective into her saving history and the God revealed in it."

    Academic text (2005)
  • And therefore all the language of theology that Dante is has been describing is part of this exilic longing of human beings.

  • El Salahi's is a psychological longing, one that is part of exilic and diasporic experience.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In the first four verses, the writer, most likely an exilic Jew writing under the influence of post-exilic reflections,

    Academic text (2000)
  • Rastas seek not to deny the validity of traditional readings of the Psalms but to reinterpret them in their exilic experience in the Caribbean.

    Academic text (2000)
  • The fiction Mustafa Sa'eed is living in the West is characterized by homelessness; Mustafa Sa'eed becomes an exilic subject in this sense, except that this exile is voluntary.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Federman's personal history, spanning a sequence of traumatic events (World War II, the Holocaust, exile, and transplantation on the New Continent), fits the paradigm of the exilic, post-Holocaust writer.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The novel explores themes of identity and belonging in the context of an exilic experience faced by many refugees.

  • Artists often depict their feelings of loss and hope through exilic themes in their work.

Surface Forms

exilic positive

Morphology

exilic = exile (transparent) = exile + ic

Formed by the noun 'exile' plus the productive adjective-forming suffix '-ic', meaning 'relating to exile'.

Etymology

Exilic comes from exile, which has the part ex- meaning 'out', as in exit, and a root meaning 'to leave'. So exilic describes being 'out' away from your home or a period when people are forced to live away from their country.