All 4 Uses of
exile
in
The Idiot
- When he observed among the exiles some poor woman with a child, he would always come forward and fondle the little one, and make it laugh.†
Chpt 3.6 *
- And, do you know, I all but went off to Paris, and should assuredly have shared his solitary exile with him; but, alas, our destinies were otherwise ordered!†
Chpt 4.4
- Evgenie Pavlovitch wrote of her from Paris, that after a short and sudden attachment to a certain Polish count, an exile, she had suddenly married him, quite against the wishes of her parents, though they had eventually given their consent through fear of a terrible scandal.†
Chpt 4.12
- He turned out to be neither count nor exile—at least, in the political sense of the word—but had had to leave his native land owing to some rather dubious affair of the past.†
Chpt 4.12
Definition:
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
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be