What is the meaning of banishment?

noun

  • The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent. )
    • usage: "the association should get rid of its elderly members-not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"
  • Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone.
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