Sekirov Dictionary

self-exile

noun 4
verb 1
forms 3

noun4

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A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.
- One source for the views of certain of these self-exiles is the newsletter of the Union of American Exiles, American Exile in Canada, published in Toronto for at least two years (1968 and 1969). — 2004
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The state of voluntary exile; The condition of choosing to leave one's homeland or community.
- Self-exile to a convent residence was the traditionally dignified solution for an injured wife of her class. — 2000
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Isolation from the world; A retreat from involvement with one's environment.
- Chang's self-exile, however, aroused rather than thwarted her readers' desire; and they consumed anecdotes and hearsay about her life as eagerly as they did any of her works. — 1998
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A separation or alienation from ones inner self.
- The autobiographical gesture, writing the word “I,” is a move into self-exile or even self-extinction. — 2008

verb1

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To go into self-exile.
- How odd that Mabuse scampers off to South America to establish his new life, where the Nazis would self-exile themselves at the end of the war. — 2015

forms

self-exiled · self-exiling · self-exiles

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