Definition for BAN'ISH-MENT

BAN'ISH-MENT, n.

  1. The act of a prince or government, compelling a citizen to leave his country, either for a limited time or forever, as for some crime.
  2. A voluntary forsaking of one's country upon oath, called abjuration. [This practice has now ceased in Great Britain.]
  3. The state of being banished; exile.
  4. The act of driving away or dispelling; as, the banishment of care from the mind.

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