Definition of "banishments" [banishments]

• Plural form of banishment. (noun)

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• "Brackett gives us a sketch of the Lucretian notion of how the ennui of long-standing security makes the beneficiaries of earlier demonic banishments vulnerable to cultic revival."
• "Two or three years ago I was near by when one of these banishments was decreed and advertised, and I went over and asked the librarian about it, and he said yes, Huck was banished for lying."
• "They also include a variety of efforts to stimulate economic growth for minority businesses in the parts of town most impacted by the riots and banishments, to support judicial redress for heirs of dispossessed victims, to increase minority home ownership in affected areas, and to create a Restructuring and Development Authority for Wilmington, to oversee these efforts, with support from governments, businesses, and media that benefited from the coup and the conditions that followed."