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/ˈɛgzˌaɪl/ /ˈɛksˌaɪl/ Listen

noun

Exile n.

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. "Let them be recalled from their exile."

The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home. "Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay."

Synonyms: Banishment; proscription; expulsion.

verb

Exile v. t. (past & past part. exiled; pres. part. exiling) To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. "Exiled from eternal God." "Calling home our exiled friends abroad."

Synonyms: See Banish.

adjective

Exile adj. Small; slender; thin; fine. (Obs.) "An exile sound."

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Etymology of 'Exile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exile" Quotes from Famous Books

... exactly. And yet—I think she WAS one of them once, but has gone or got into exile," said Anne musingly. "She is certainly very different from the other women about here. You can't talk about eggs and butter to HER. To think I've been imagining her a second Mrs. Rachel Lynde! Have you ever seen Dick ...

— Anne's House of Dreams • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... point worthy of attention is, that a certain breath of paganism, wafting perfumes from the old mythology, whispering of gods in exile, encouraging men to accept their life on earth with genial enjoyment, was never wholly absent during the darkest periods of the Middle Ages. This inspiration uttered itself in Latin; for we have little reason ...

— Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various

... known that their number was small, I did not conceive it to be so inconsiderable as I now find it. But some English subject must be found to be about these boys at all hours. It would be a terrible thing to condemn these poor creatures to an universal exile, and to be perpetual vagrants, without a possibility of being in a state of effectual communication with the natives of any country or incorporating themselves with any people. God forbid that, under the pretext of a benefit, I should be the ...

— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... Gentiles and to the Jews that lived among the Gentiles, they answered: brother, there are a great many believers among the Jews, and all here are ardent followers of the law, and these have heard that thou teachest to the Jews in exile that Moses may be forsaken, and that they need not circumcise their children and may set aside our customs. Now, Paul, they asked, what favour dost thou expect from us if these things be as they have been reported to us? And being sure within myself that it was not counsel ...

— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore

... them to the best of your power, and where they know where to find you if ever they are in need of you. There are circumstances in which a man may be of more use to his fellow-countrymen outside his country than within it. Then he should listen only to his own zeal and should bear his exile without a murmur; that exile is one of his duties. But you, dear Emile, you have not undertaken the painful task of telling men the truth, you must live in the midst of your fellow-creatures, cultivating ...

— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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