All 5 Uses of
banish
in
Jane Eyre
- There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair.†
Chpt 18 *
- Heart-weary and soul-withered, you come home after years of voluntary banishment: you make a new acquaintance — how or where no matter: you find in this stranger much of the good and bright qualities which you have sought for twenty years, and never before encountered; and they are all fresh, healthy, without soil and without taint.†
Chpt 20
- Alas, this isolation — this banishment from my kind!†
Chpt 28
- Genius banished?†
Chpt 32
- To his sisters, meantime, he was somewhat kinder than usual: as if afraid that mere coldness would not sufficiently convince me how completely I was banished and banned, he added the force of contrast; and this I am sure he did not by force, but on principle.†
Chpt 35
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