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Imprisonment vs Exile - What's the difference?

imprisonment | exile |

As nouns the difference between imprisonment and exile

is that imprisonment is a confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime while exile is the state of being banished from one's home or country.

As a verb exile is

to send into exile.

imprisonment

English

Alternative forms

* emprisonment (obsolete)

Noun

  • A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
  • * Spenser
    • His sinews waxen weak and raw / Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
  • * Blackstone
    • Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment , whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
  • * (Sir Walter Raleigh)
    • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments , tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings

    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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