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exiled
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exile \Ex"ile\v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exiled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Exiling .] To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. ``Exiled from eternal God.'' --Tennyson. Calling home our exiled friends abroad. --Shak. Syn: See Banish ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: exile )
Usage examples of exiled.
After Cyrus had permitted the exiled nation to return into the promised land, and after Ezra had restored the ancient records of their religion, two celebrated sects, the Sadducees and the Pharisees, insensibly arose at Jerusalem.
The exiled bishop enjoyed the conveniences of life and the consciousness of virtue.
The same zeal which inspired their songs prompted the more scrupulous members of the orthodox party to form separate assemblies, which were governed by the presbyters, till the death of their exiled bishop allowed the election and consecration of a new episcopal pastor.
I not cause all the citizens, exiled by party violence, with their wretched wives and children, to be readmitted?
Arcole Blayke, swordsman and gambler, considering marriage to an exiled serving girl?
We are exiled from Ket-Ta-Witko by what I did, and Vachyr, and Chakthi.
Return does not depend on their will but on the government that has exiled them.
The emperor whom he offended was the man who exiled him and the only man who can reverse his sentence.
The interplay of stereotypes and realities becomes both a problem and a technique for the exiled writer.
Charles Kinbote, its mad annotator and exiled figure, is cut off from an unrecoverable past and experiences a shift of values that disorients his adopted country.
Jacob Gradus, whom Kinbote identifies as a Zemblan assassin who seeks to kill the exiled King but kills Shade instead.
Kinbote, even if not the exiled monarch of Zembla, is certainly an exile.
The actuality of these historical problems is literally embodied in the figure of the exiled writer, so that authorship is an echo of the problem it addresses.
The particularity of exile itself, the artificiality of the constructs by which it is articulated, and the distant, ironic voice of the author all raise problems for readers who can identify neither with the causes of exile nor with the ironic voice of the exiled author.
But these negative universals imply an opposite in the assertion of personal responsibility that ties the flawed and exiled self to significant commonalities.