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Banishment

The act of banishing, or the state of being banished.

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Anathematization 76% connected

The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation.

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Deportation 76% connected

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

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Disbarment 76% connected

Act of disbarring.

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Ejection 76% connected

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.

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Excision 76% connected

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

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Exclusion 76% connected

The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…

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Excommunication 76% connected

The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of…

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Exile 76% connected

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's…

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Expatriation 76% connected

The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance.

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Expulsion 76% connected

The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.

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Relegation 76% connected

The act of relegating, or the state of being relegated; removal; banishment; exile.

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Riddance 76% connected

The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.

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Rustication 76% connected

The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the…

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Transportation 76% connected

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.

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Exclusion 76% connected

The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; the state of bein…

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Rejection 76% connected

Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.

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Banish 74% connected

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

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Banish 74% connected

To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.

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Coventry 92% connected

A town in the county of Warwick, England.

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Ostracism 92% connected

Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.

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Proscription 92% connected

The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a…

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