All 4 Uses of
banish
in
The House of Mirth
- She had known that Mr. Percy Gryce was to be at Bellomont, but she had not counted on the luck of having him to herself in the train; and the fact banished all perturbing thoughts of Mr. Rosedale.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- In town she returned to preoccupations which, for the moment, had the happy effect of banishing troublesome thoughts.†
Chpt 1.12
- It was as though she had stepped, not out of, but into, Reynolds's canvas, banishing the phantom of his dead beauty by the beams of her living grace.†
Chpt 1.12
- What debt did she owe to a social order which had condemned and banished her without trial?†
Chpt 2.11
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