2 uses
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Definition
to expel or get rid of
in various senses, including:
- to force someone to leave a country as punishment
- to push an idea from the mind
- It was necessary for me to have been banished from the presence of Miss Cunegonde, to have afterwards run the gauntlet, and now it is necessary I should beg my bread until I learn to earn it; all this cannot be otherwise.Chapter 3 (63% in)
- They often saw passing under the windows of their farm boats full of Effendis, Pashas, and Cadis, who were going into banishment to Lemnos, Mitylene, or Erzeroum.Chapter 30 (22% in)
There are no more uses of "banish" in Candide.
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