All 11 Uses

banish
in
Flora & Ulysses
(Edited)

CHAPTER FORTY—EIGHT — Banished
p. 157.1

banished = expelled or gotten rid of
"What happened to you?" asked Flora.
"I was banished."
... It was a word that Flora could feel in the pit of her stomach, a small, cold stone of a word.
p. 158.2 *

banished = expelled (forced to leave)
Banished.
p. 158.3

banished = expelled or gotten rid of
Why were you banished?
p. 158.4
I think the more relevant question would be: Who banished me?
p. 158.4
Who banished you?
p. 158.5
And thus, I was banished.
p. 159.7
The list continued on with these words: ... Banished ...
p. 165.8
He thought about the word banished and the word homesick.
p. 176.4
She wanted things to be the way they were, before she was banished.
p. 206.9
If only there were some way to tell her everything that had happened: Flora's mother saying that life would be easier without her, the universe expanding, William Spiver's banishment, Flora's homesickness, the writing of his poem, the typing of the untrue words, the stone squirrel, the sack, the woods, the shovel ….
p. 211.3

banishment = to expel or get rid of

Definitions:

(1) (banish)
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
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)