Driven vs Banish - What's the difference?
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Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
(of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.
(label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
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#:If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.
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#:He was banished from the kingdom.
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#*, 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.
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#*: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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As verbs the difference between driven and banish
is that driven is while banish is (label) to send someone away and forbid that person from returning .As an adjective driven
is obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.driven
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* demand-driven English adjectives ending in -en English irregular past participles ----banish
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(es)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.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=