banishments
Official expulsion orders
Banishments is the plural of banishment—the act of forcing someone to leave a place, typically a country, as punishment or for political reasons.
Banishment differs from exile in emphasizing the formal decree rather than the condition of being away: The king's banishments of his political enemies filled the courts of Europe with plotters.
The word also applies to figurative expulsions: repeated banishments from her thoughts.
Banishment from homeland
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- extraditionFugitive transfer between jurisdictions
outlawry · proscription · excommunication · transportation · removal · displacement · ejection · eviction
Scriptural original paradise
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
- fallenHaving dropped down
- cursedUnder a malevolent spell
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
homelands · kingdoms · realms · outcasts · protagonists · journeys · returns · redemption
Banished persons
- purgesForcible removals from power
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- defectorsThose abandoning allegiance
emigres · deportees · asylum · persecution · tyranny · oppression · dictatorship · regime
Blocked unconscious material
- suppressionsActs of forcibly subduing
- denialsRefusals to acknowledge
- avoidancesActs of steering clear
- rejectionsFormal refusals given
exclusions · erasures · forgetting · blocking · compartmentalizing · distancing · detachment · isolation
Rituals expelling evil spirits
- cleansingsActs of removing impurities
- purificationsRemoval of contaminants
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- demonsMalevolent supernatural beings
spirits · curses · consecrations · blessings · incantations · rites · ceremonies · deliverances
exile
Banishment from homeland
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- expulsionForced permanent removal
- ostracismBanishment from a group
extradition · outlawry · proscription · excommunication · transportation · removal · displacement · ejection · eviction · relegation
Eden
Scriptural original paradise
wandering · homelands · kingdoms · realms · outcasts · protagonists · journeys · returns · redemption · restoration
exiles
Banished persons
- purgesForcible removals from power
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
defectors · emigres · deportees · asylum · persecution · tyranny · oppression · dictatorship · regime · diaspora
repressions
Blocked unconscious material
- suppressionsActs of forcibly subduing
- denialsRefusals to acknowledge
- avoidancesActs of steering clear
rejections · exclusions · erasures · forgetting · blocking · compartmentalizing · distancing · detachment · isolation · alienation
exorcisms
Rituals expelling evil spirits
- cleansingsActs of removing impurities
- purificationsRemoval of contaminants
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
demons · spirits · curses · consecrations · blessings · incantations · rites · ceremonies · deliverances · possessions
- restrictionsban, limits, limit, restrictions, restriction
- magicwizard, wand, sorcerer, witchcraft, mage
- royal decreesroyal decree, royal decrees, decree, decrees, royal edict
- mandatesmandates, edicts, decrees, dictates, directives
banishmentswelcomes
Receives with hospitality
invitations · admissions · acceptances · inclusions · embraces
banishmentsrestorations
Acts of renewing condition
pardons · reinstatements · amnesties · rehabilitations · reprieves