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internal exile

noun

Definitions

  1. Banishment to a remote part of one's own country as a punishment or sanction.

    • The Government has said that all those sentenced to three months of internal exile and rehabilitation are ordinary criminals and that there is no political motive for the decision.

  2. A person thus banished.

  3. A sense of alienation and uprootedness.

    • Unless this internal shift can be made, then not only the Russians but all of humanity will continue to languish in an internal exile.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA