An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
BANISHMENT
banishment, proscription
(noun) rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
banishment, ostracism, Coventry
(noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); “the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
banishment (countable and uncountable, plural banishments)
The act of banishing.
The state of being banished, exile.
Synonyms
• exile
Source: Wiktionary
Ban"ish*ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. bannissement.]
Definition: The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden.
Syn.
– Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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