Unwanted vs Banished - What's the difference?
unwanted | banished | Related terms |
One who or that which is not wanted; an undesirable.
* 1963 , The Nyasaland Journal (volumes 16-17, page 12)
* 1970 , Triumph (volumes 5-6, page 7)
(banish)
(label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
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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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Unwanted is a related term of banished.
As adjectives the difference between unwanted and banished
is that unwanted is not wanted, welcome or acceptable while banished is .As a noun unwanted
is one who or that which is not wanted; an undesirable.unwanted
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Usage notes
* Nouns to which "unwanted" is often applied: effect, consequence, pregnancy, child, baby, person, guest, visitor, gift, thought, element, sound, sex, feature.Noun
(en noun)- What slaves they had bought to carry the goods of the interior back to the coast were the unwanteds of the villages — the persons convicted of crime who would normally have been killed or banished from their communities
- There were no thoughts of hydrogen bombs or CBW or contraceptives or removing unwanteds . It was the old America, the old order restored, and the President saw that it was Good.
banished
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(head)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.}}
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