"a banishment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the state of being banished or forced to leave a place. Example: After committing a serious crime, the king declared a banishment on the traitor, ordering him to leave the kingdom and never return.
Accordingly, he banished Teika from his court, a banishment that would last for more than a year; this feud distressed devotees of poetry.
He didn't mention whether an assignment there would be a promotion or a banishment.
Elvis was banned for life from the show, a banishment that lasted all of 12 years.
Sprewell's troubles began when he reported to training camp with a fractured bone in his right hand, drawing a banishment from the team and $437,500 in fines.
Klinsmann is not taking Dempsey to Sarajevo for a friendly match with Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday, but that is a gesture to give Dempsey time to adjust to a new team, not a banishment.
1991 Records: Yankees, 71-91; Mets, 77-84 STEINBRENNER CONTINUES to serve a banishment handed down by Commissioner Fay Vincent for his dealings with a gambler named Howie Spira, whom he paid for information on Dave Winfield.
"RELIGIOUS leaders...who hold meetings which take place late at night and break up by day, whereby the people are stirred up and misled under the pretext of cultivating virtue, shall be sentenced, the principal perpetrators to strangulation, and their accomplices to a hundred blows with the long stick, followed by a lifelong banishment to a distance of three thousand li".
"Why should someone be allowed to appeal when they're cheating?" Shays said about the players' right to appeal a lifetime banishment for a third penalty.
"Why should someone be allowed to appeal when they're cheating?" Shays said about the players' right to appeal a lifetime banishment for a third penalty.
Here was a people's president who, from a comfortable banishment, lobbied successfully for a brutal embargo against his own country, and who, returning to power in 1994, accepted international demands for a rapacious end to Haiti's import bans.
As a result, it's a good thing for me that after a long banishment from the clinical scene, hallucinogens are making a comeback.
