Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Noun: banishment  ba-nish-munt
  1. Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
    "The king's banishment of his rival secured his power";
    - proscription
     
  2. The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
    "His racist remarks resulted in social banishment";
    - ostracism, Coventry

Derived forms: banishments

Type of: exclusion, rejection

Encyclopedia: Banishment