All 8 Uses of
banish
in
Wuthering Heights
- On coming back a few days afterwards (for I did not consider my banishment perpetual), I found they had christened him 'Heathcliff': it was the name of a son who died in childhood, and it has served him ever since, both for Christian and surname.†
Chpt 4
- One Sunday evening, it chanced that they were banished from the sitting-room, for making a noise, or a light offence of the kind; and when I went to call them to supper, I could discover them nowhere.†
Chpt 6
- 'Banish him from your thoughts, Miss,' I said.†
Chpt 10 *
- I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his.†
Chpt 14
- I desire an explanation: playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind; and I can't dance attendance on your affectations now!'†
Chpt 27
- 'Oh, indeed; you're tired of being banished from the world, are you?' he said.†
Chpt 31
- Mr. Heathcliff, who grew more and more disinclined to society, had almost banished Earnshaw from his apartment.†
Chpt 32
- 'Is there some new reason for this banishment?'†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(banish) to expel or get rid ofin various senses, including:
- to force someone to leave a country as punishment
- to push an idea from the mind