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Exiled vs Banished - What's the difference?

exiled | banished |

As verbs the difference between exiled and banished

is that exiled is past tense of exile while banished is past tense of banish.

As an adjective banishèd is

alternative form of banished.

exiled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (exile)

  • exile

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia exile) (en noun)
  • The state of being banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let them be recalled from their exile .
  • Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.

    Synonyms

    * (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expat

    Derived terms

    * internal exile

    Verb

    (exil)
  • To send into exile.
  • * Tennyson
  • Exiled from eternal God.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

    Synonyms

    * banish

    Anagrams

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    banished

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (banish)

  • banish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • (label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
  • #(with simple direct object)
  • #:If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.
  • #
  • #:He was banished from the kingdom.
  • #*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 15, author=Felicity Cloake, work=Guardian
  • , title= How to cook the perfect nut roast , passage=The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.}}
  • #
  • #*, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:
  • #*:Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.
  • #
  • #*, II.10:
  • #*:he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world.
  • #*1796 , (Matthew Lewis), The Monk , Folio Society, 1985, p.190:
  • #*:Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
  • To expel, especially from the mind.
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