All 5 Uses of
banish
in
Another Country
- Henry and Grace were eventually banished, due to some lapse or offense on Henry's part.†
p. 198.8banished = expelled or gotten rid of
- Since Eric's parents had never approved of those sessions in the furnace room, Eric always suspected this as the reason for Henry's banishment, which made his opposition to his parents more bitter than ever.†
p. 198.9banishment = to expel or get rid of
- They had been friends for a long time, from the time of Henry's banishment.†
p. 202.0
- Whoever, in New York, attempted to cling to this right, lived in New York in exile—in exile from the life around him; and this, paradoxically, had the effect of placing him in perpetual danger of being forever banished from any real sense of himself.†
p. 316.8banished = expelled or gotten rid of
- He could not imagine it and he felt a quick revulsion, quickly banished, for it threatened his ease.†
p. 385.8 *
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