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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

ban, blackball, blackballing, blacklist, boycott, boycottage, defrocking, degradation, demotion, depluming, deportation, deprivation, disbarment, disfellowship, displacement, displuming, exclusion, excommunication, exile, expatriation, expulsion, extradition, fugitation, ostracism, ostracization, outlawing, outlawry, proscription, relegation, rustication, stripping, transportation, unfrocking

Dictionary Results for banishment:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

banishment
    n 1: 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: banishment, ostracism,
         Coventry]
    2: rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing
       someone [syn: banishment, proscription]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Banishment \Ban"ish*ment\, n. [Cf. F. bannissement.]
   The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.
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         He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies.
                                                  --Johnson.
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         Round the wide world in banishment we roam. --Dryden.
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   Syn: Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile;
        outlawry.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

BANISHMENT, crim. law. A punishment inflicted upon criminals, by compelling 
them to quit a city, place, or country, for, a specified period of time, or 
for life. Vide 4 Dall. 14. Deportation; Relegation.

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