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banishment
 
Noun banishment has 2 senses
  1. banishment, ostracism, Coventry - 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"
    --1 is a kind of exclusion
    Derived form: verb banish1
  2. banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
    --2 is a kind of rejection
    --2 has particulars:
     anathematization, anathematisation; disbarment; ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance; exile, deportation, expatriation, transportation; excommunication, excision; relegation; rustication
    Derived form: verb banish3
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