exilement

English

Etymology

Compare Old French exilement.

Noun

exilement (countable and uncountable, plural exilements)

  1. (archaic) banishment; exile
    • 1657, Henry Wotton, Characters of some Kings of England:
      discarded into a Forraign Service, for a pretty shadow of Exilement

References

“exilement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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