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The act of expelling a person from their native land
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expatriation
Word definitions for expatriation in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expatriation \Ex*pa`tri*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. expatriation.] The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 voluntary migration from one's native land to another 2 forced expulsion of from one's native land to another
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1767, from French expatriation , noun of action from expatrier (see expatriate ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of expelling a person from their native land; "men in exile dream of hope"; "his deportation to a penal colony"; "the expatriation of wealthy farmers"; "the sentence was one of transportation for life" [syn: exile , deportation , transportation ...
Usage examples of expatriation.
Third, they all had lengthy experiences of exile or expatriation that profoundly affected the course of their lives and the development of their ideas.
He never at this time spoke about his affairs to either of them, but daily referred to her future expatriation as a thing that was certain.
Athenians have escaped expatriation, which is purely an Oriental custom.
Jews, who had no seaports, colonizing Spain, it may be remarked that the colony may have been an expatriation by the Philistines in the course of the long struggle which occurred between them and the invading tribes previous to the foundation of the Hebrew monarchy.
These unquestionably entered Europe with the other Sarmatian nations, descending the Borysthenes and ascending the Danube, and are according to all probability the progeny of the expatriations of the times of Tiglath-Pileser and Nebuchadnezzar.