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
She also had lived amidst the gaslights, and now she was self-banished into absolute obscurity.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
To the world, and more especially England, he presented himself in no other aspect than that of a stern, haughty misanthrope, self-banished from the society of men, and most of all from that of Englishmen.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by John Lord
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
