KJV Dictionary - banishment
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BANISHMENT
BAN'ISHMENT, n. The act of a prince or government, compelling a citizen to leave his country, either for a limited time or forever, as for some crime.
2. A voluntary forsaking of one's country upon oath, called abjuration. This practice has now ceased in G.Britain.
3. The state of being banished; exile.
4. The act of driving away or dispelling; as the banishment of care from the mind.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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