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# banishment

«banishment» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **being sent away from your country or home as a punishment…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (banishment — uncountable; a banishment)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Banishment is being sent away from your country or home as a punishment and not allowed to come back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#m1)

2) Banishment can mean getting rid of something completely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history, kings punished enemies with banishment; in the Bible, Adam and Eve's banishment from the Garden of Eden. In stories, a prince is banished from the kingdom. In everyday talk, «banishment to your bedroom» is a joke.

### examples

- The king sentenced the traitor to banishment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#x1)
- Napoleon's banishment to St Helena lasted until his death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#x2)
- Adam and Eve's banishment from Eden is told in Genesis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#x3)
- The Queen of Hearts threatened banishment and beheading. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#x4)
- After banishment he could never return home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#x5)
- The banishment of mobile phones from class pleased the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#x6)
- With the defeat of Cronus and his banishment from his dominions, his career as a ruling Greek divinity entirely ceases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/#x7)

### note

Verb: banish, banished. Similar: exile. Usually uncountable.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «banishment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/B/banishment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.