self-banishment
- a word derived from banishment.
Example Sentences
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They could have believed in such self-banishment in one of their own sons; but the son of a general, a county squire, the owner of a large landed estate—the thing was not to be credited!
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne
None asked her a reason for her self-banishment, none inquired whether the cause of her exile was crime or misfortune.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James
Did you see him here before his judicious self-banishment?'
From Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
At present his self-banishment had been carried no farther than Vienna.
From The Duke's Children by Trollope, Anthony
"I will come when you send for me and not before," her husband said to her, "and I trust you understand the motives which underlie my self-banishment."
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)
