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Noun: banishment  banishmunt
  1. The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
    - 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