Both Uses of
exile
in
The House of Mirth
- Lily, to whom family reunions were occasions of unalloyed dulness, had persuaded her aunt that a dinner of "smart" people would be much more to the taste of the young couple, and Mrs. Peniston, who leaned helplessly on her niece in social matters, had been prevailed upon to pronounce Grace's exile.†
Chpt 1.11
- She had risen, and stood before him in a kind of clouded majesty, like some deposed princess moving tranquilly to exile.†
Chpt 2.3 *
Definition:
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(exile) to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be