Associations to the word «Banishment»

Wiktionary

BANISHMENT, noun. The act of banishing.
BANISHMENT, noun. The state of being banished, exile.

Dictionary definition

BANISHMENT, noun. 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".
BANISHMENT, noun. Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne