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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 banishment"
   - ostracism, Coventry
    
2. Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
   - proscription

Derived forms: banishments

See also: banish

Type of: exclusion, rejection

Encyclopedia: Banishment