Crossword clues for banishment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Banishment \Ban"ish*ment\, n. [Cf. F. bannissement.] The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies.
--Johnson.
Round the wide world in banishment we roam.
--Dryden.
Syn: Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, from banish + -ment.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of banish. 2 The state of being banished, exile.
WordNet
n. 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]
rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone [syn: proscription]
Usage examples of "banishment".
On the day after Christmas, as if to defy anathema, he himself fulminated a fearful decree of banishment against all the kith and kin of Becket, male and female, old and young.
He declared his resolution of asserting the justice of their cause, and of securing the peace of the provinces by the extirpation, or at least the banishment, of the Limigantes, whose manners were still infected with the vices of their servile origin.
He praises their zeal and devotion in terms of the highest satisfaction, descants on the obstinate impiety of the Christians, and betrays, by the readiness with which he consents to their banishment, that he considered himself as receiving, rather than as conferring, an obligation.
This idea of the banishment or admission of souls, according to their deserts, or according to an elective grace, into an anchored location called hell or heaven, a retributive or rewarding residence for eternity, we shall pass by with few words, because it recurs for fuller examination in other chapters.
Without the idea of a Satan there would be no idea of a retributive banishment of souls into hell, and of course no occasion for a vindicating restoration of them thence to their former or a superior state.
Ralph Shepster should undergo banishment, and had the right to demand reparation.
They received it as a fact that through the mediation of Christ the original boon forfeited by Adam was to be restored, and that men, instead of undergoing death and banishment to Hades, should be translated to heaven.
Ever since he had joined Sandersham in banishment, Atlee had feared a visit from The Shadow.
The banishment of Grueling would be a severe punishment on the man and the members of his family.
Eduard Devrient urged Karlsruhe, where he was director, but Wagner wanted to supervise the production, and this was impossible in a theatre of Germany so long as the decree of banishment for participation in the Saxon rebellion hung over his head.
There was a famous banishment scene: Kellogg and his deputies walking Chaos to the edge of town.
A clause in the act concerning blasphemous and seditious libels, which decreed the punishment of transportation on a second conviction was withdrawn in the commons, but the penalty of banishment, hitherto unknown in England, was enacted in its stead.
Jews and the Moriscos, though the banishment of the former took place at an earlier date.
Brewer had told her, and no prisoner sentenced to banishment on Pinchgut was permitted more.
He lost himself in reverie of his first life for a moment, remembering that old canna of a Premia Sancta, Caterin Serrano, and her banishment of all Grijalvas from the shrines and Sanctias she controlled.