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Expulsion   /ɪkspˈəlʃən/   Listen
Expulsion

noun
1.
The act of forcing out someone or something.  Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, riddance.  "The child's expulsion from school"
2.
Squeezing out by applying pressure.  Synonym: extrusion.  "The expulsion of pus from the pimple"
3.
The act of expelling or projecting or ejecting.  Synonyms: ejection, forcing out, projection.






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... VI was confined, during the period of his insanity, by order of the cruel Isabeau de Baviere. The Duke of Bedford, when regent for the minor Henry VI, lodged here, and upon the expulsion of the English it became the residence of Charles VII. Louis XI and Louis XII each inhabited it, and the latter died ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... Had we held to the atomic theory and denied smaller sub-divisions of matter there would be no accounting for the emissions of radium, for as science now believes these emissions are merely the expulsion of ...
— Marvels of Modern Science • Paul Severing

... have it at last,—an American poem, with the lack of which British reviewers have so long reproached us. Selecting the subject of all others best calculated for his purpose,—the expulsion of the French settlers of Acadie from their quiet and pleasant homes around the Basin of Minas, one of the most sadly romantic passages in the history of the Colonies of the North,—the author has succeeded ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier

... descendant of Charles X, the last of the elder branch that reigned in France. Some little time before his death, the Comte de Chambord was reconciled to the younger or Orleans branch, which had usurped the throne after the expulsion of Charles X. By this act the Comte de Paris was recognized as the legitimate successor to the throne. The present Duke of Orleans, should the monarchy be restored, would rule as Philippe VII. The Comte de Chambord took the title ...
— In Chteau Land • Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

... honourable member from the sunny shores of the Gulf helped himself down, though somewhat angrily, and choosing a tamer course began to come nearer to the point. He called for the suppression of the offending newspaper and the expulsion of its editor from the city. He spoke of Winthrop by name and denounced him. Robert saw Mr. Sefton appear upon the floor and once nod his head approvingly as ...
— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler


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