banishment

noun

ban·​ish·​ment ˈba-nish-mənt 

plural -s

1

a

: a legal expulsion from a country

in 1940 his sentence was changed to banishment

—Current Biography

b

: exclusion or dismissal, self-imposed or prescribed by some authority, especially from a particular area, group, or class

his banishment from amateur sports

banishment from good society

2

: a casting off : discarding

the banishment of the textbook from the classroom

—Theodore Collier

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