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exile
1 a :the state or a period of forced absence from one's country or home
2. expel and bar (someone) from their native country, typically for political or punitive reasons:
ORIGIN
Middle English: the noun partly from Old French exil ‘banishment’ and partly from Old French exile ‘banished person’; the verb from Old French exiler; all based on Latin exilium ‘banishment,’ from exul ‘banished person.’
Lev_20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.