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  1. noun Enforced removal from one's native country.
  2. noun Self-imposed absence from one's country.
  3. noun The condition or a period of living away from one's native country.
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  • He was sent out of the country for a little while, but I don't think his exile was a very terrible one. —  My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
  • She had hoped to get a ride up the West Side Highway and over the George Washington Bridge, putting her as close as possible to Passaic, keeping her hitching-as much as she capital-A Adored it! —  Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
  • This exile was a severe punishment; and yet, from the point of view of my grandfather's personal safety it was probably just as well, for he was defiant enough and courageous enough to have decided to liberate his serfs, and this only eight months before their ultimate liberation by decree. —  An Autobiography
  • “You must not seek for the cause of the order which I have signified to you, in the silence which you have observed with regard to the emperor in your last work; that would be a great mistake; he could find no place there which was worthy of him; but your exile is a natural consequence of the line of conduct you have constantly pursued for several years past. —  Ten Years' Exile
  • Long years after, when fortune had abandoned the fortunate, and was smiling upon the unfortunate — when the exile was a monarch, and his friend and benefactor was needy and poor — when Louis Philippe was king of France and the wealthiest man in Europe, they met again. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
 

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imprisonment ·  banishment ·  refugee ·  captivity ·  poverty ·  misery ·  solitude ·  disgrace ·  adventurer ·  defeat ·  servitude ·  suffering
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English exil, from Old French, from Latin exilium, from exul, exsul, exiled person, wanderer.

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  1. from Middle English exil, exile, from Old French exil, essil, French exil = Provencal essil = Spanish Portuguese exilio = Italian esilio, from Latin exilium, exsilium, banishment, from exul, exsul, a banished man, an exile; formation uncertain; perhaps from exsilire (*exsal-), spring forth (go forth), from ex, out, + salire, leap, spring, orig. go, = Sanskrit √ sar, go: see salient, and cf. exult, exilition; less prob. literally one driven from his native soil, from ex, out of, from, + solum, the ground, the soil, one's native soil, land, country: see soil.
  2. from Middle English exilen, from Old French exiler, essiller, French exiler = Provencal essilhar = Italian esiliare, from Middle Latin exiliare, send into exile, from Latin exilium, exile: see exile, n.
  3. from Old French exile = Italian esile, from Latin exilis, small, thin, slender, lank, contr. of *exigilis, equivalent to exiguus, small, etc.: see exiguous.
 

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