exile

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You know how she hates what she calls her exile, and I hear that she has been quietly using all her family influence to obtain his recall and his appointment as a magistrate here.

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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
  • 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
  • It†™ s the end for Gog and his exile is about to begin. —  comicbookbin.com
  • Instead, he believes an alternative theory is more plausible: the exile was a myth promoted by early Christians to recruit Jews to the new faith. —  Qwaider Planet
  • The Empire drove him into exile--exile first at Brussels, then in Jersey, finally in Guernsey, where Hugo, in his own imagination, was the martyred but unsubdued demi-god on his sea-beaten rock. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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imprisonment ·  banishment ·  refugee ·  captivity ·  poverty ·  misery ·  solitude ·  disgrace ·  adventurer ·  defeat ·  servitude ·  suffering

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exile:   exiles ·  exiling ·  exiled
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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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