SuaviloquyToday’s word

exile

Exile v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Exiling.]

To banish or expel from one's own country or home; to drive away. "Exiled from eternal God." Tennyson. Calling home our exiled friends abroad. Shak.

Syn. -- See Banish.

2 other Webster entries under this spelling

Exile, n.

1. Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country. Let them be recalled from their exile. Shak.

2. The person expelled from his country by authority; also, one who separates himself from his home. Thou art in exile, and thou must not stay. Shak.

Syn. -- Banishment; proscription; expulsion.

Exile, a.

Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile sound." Bacon.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for exile; he lists it under banish.

Where he writes about it:

One may expatriate or exile himself; he is banished by others. — from banish