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banish

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From Middle English banishen, from Old French baniss-, extended stem of banir (“to proclaim, ban, banish”), from Latin banniō (“to summon, ban, excommunicate, etc.”), from Frankish *bannijan (“to summon, to banish”), from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to proclaim, order, summon, ban”, root also of Old English bannan (“to summon”), whence Modern English ban), from a Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak/say”). Compare French bannir, Portuguese banir, Italian bandire.

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banish (third-person singular simple present banishes, present participle banishing, simple past and past participle banished)

  1. (transitive) To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning.
    He was banished from the kingdom for his crimes.
    • 2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      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.
      (Can we archive this URL?)
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
      , 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, published 1985, page 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.
  2. (transitive) To expel, especially from the mind.
    to banish fear; to banish a qualm
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
    • 2021, Paula Hawkins, chapter 26, in A Slow Fire Burning, [New York, N.Y.]: Random House Large Print, →ISBN, page 281:
      Helping her into her still-damp coat, she asked if Laura had a solicitor. Laura laughed, started off down the lane, limping a little more than usual, and then she turned back, a grin on her face, all traces of tears banished. “Does the pope shit in the woods?”

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