banishment
21banishment — A punishment inflicted upon criminals, by compelling them to leave a country for a specified period of time, or for life. Synonymous with exilement or deportation, importing a compulsory loss of one s country. See also deportation …
22banishment — A punishment inflicted upon criminals, by compelling them to leave a country for a specified period of time, or for life. Synonymous with exilement or deportation, importing a compulsory loss of one s country. See also deportation …
23banishment — The removal, expulsion, or deportation of a person from a country by the political authority thereof on the ground of expediency. The better use of the word appears to exclude its employment in the sense of transportation or exile by way of… …
24banishment — 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 • Syn: ↑ostracism, ↑Coventry • Derivationally related …
25Massachusetts Banishment Act — The Massachusetts Banishment Act also known as the Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts was a Bill of attainder passed on September, 1778, to prevent the return to this state of certain persons therein named and others who have left this… …
26The Banishment — Infobox Film name = The Banishment Изгнание image size = caption = director = Andrey Zvyagintsev producer = Dmitri Lesnevsky writer = Book William Saroyan Screenplay Artyom Melkumian Oleg Negin narrator = starring = Konstantin Lavronenko… …
27exile and banishment — ▪ law prolonged absence from one s country imposed by vested authority as a punitive measure. It most likely originated among early civilizations from the practice of designating an offender an outcast and depriving him of the comfort and… …
28self-banishment — n. * * * …
29self-banishment — n …
30deportation — Banishment to a foreign country, attended with confiscation of property and deprivation of civil rights. A punishment derived from the deportatio (q.v.) of the Roman law. The transfer of an alien, excluded or expelled, from the United States to a …
