Associations to the word «Banishment»

Wiktionary

BANISHMENT, noun. The act of banishing.
BANISHMENT, noun. The state of being banished, exile.

Dictionary definition

BANISHMENT, noun. 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".
BANISHMENT, noun. Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone.

Wise words

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Hippocrates