banishment
Noun
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The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) (synset 114451037)
"the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"is a type of: exclusion - the state of being excluded
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Rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone (synset 100207151)
is a type of: rejection - the act of rejecting somethingsubtypes:
- anathematisation, anathematization - the formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed
- disbarment - the act of expelling a lawyer from the practice of law
- ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance - the act of forcing out someone or something
- deportation, exile, expatriation, transportation - the act of expelling a person from their native land
- excision, excommunication - the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society
- relegation - mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position
- rustication - banishment into the country
same as: proscription
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