Self-exile

Quick meaning: Self-exile is a noun meaning (countable) A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.

Meaning

(countable) A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The state of voluntary exile; The condition of choosing to leave one's homeland or community.
2. (uncountable) Isolation from the world; A retreat from involvement with one's environment.
3. (uncountable) A separation or alienation from ones inner self.
4. To go into self-exile.

Example Sentences

Self-exile to a convent residence was the traditionally dignified solution for an injured wife of her class.

Indeed, in looking to Pound, Eliot and Stein, self-exiles all, he looks more to London and Paris than across the ocean.

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.

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).

Word Forms

• self-exiles
• self-exiling
• self-exiled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include expatriate, expatriatism, excommunicant, come-outer, excommunicatee, recluse.

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