banish
verb (used with object)
to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile.
self-banished
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a word derived from
banish.
Example Sentences
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Even the results of Britain's Got Ice-Factor may lay prettily glistening beyond my remit now that I am self-banished.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
The Mowbray party, having recalled the self-banished Fanny, then took leave, not without the satisfaction of believing that their visit had been well-timed and useful.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope
Will speak of the self-banished Americans, Hale's 'Man without a Country,' etc.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
The first hesitancy of host or hostess, and he would be self-banished!
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
"They, at least, shall not forcibly eject us," said she; "no, no, we will go of our own free will, self-banished!"
From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene
