BANISHMENT

• (noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

  synonyms : proscription

• (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

  "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"

  synonyms : coventry , ostracism

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