self-exilen.1
/ˌsɛlfˈɛkzʌɪl/, /ˌsɛlfˈɛɡzʌɪl/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈɛɡˌzaɪl/, /ˌsɛlfˈɛkˌsaɪl/ A person living in voluntary or self-imposed exile. Also (and in earliest use) figurative.
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1683 Apol. for God's Worship & Worshipers 66 To be voluntary, self exiles, to shut up our selves in solitude, and leave our Duty tamely, is another [thing].
1800 ‘E. H.’ Tales of Truth II. 69 I was an alienated being—a self exile from the dwelling of peace.
1877 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 19 Aug. 12/3 (headline) How the Quaker self-exiles from Russia establish their villages.
1941 S. J. French Torch & Crucible 93 On his deathbed, a self-exile in far-off Pennsylvania, he would hurl feeble defiance at the new theory of the Frenchman.
1983 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 8 Dec. a24/1 The United States should not be fooled by the Nicaraguan government's recent concessions.., two Nicaraguan self-exiles said Wednesday.
2013 K. Shepard Celestials 174 The Chinese Imperial Government would forever define him as a self-exile.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
self-exilen.2
/ˌsɛlfˈɛkzʌɪl/, /ˌsɛlfˈɛɡzʌɪl/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈɛɡˌzaɪl/, /ˌsɛlfˈɛkˌsaɪl/ Voluntary or self-imposed exile.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [noun]
flemeOE
exilec1330
flemingc1374
relegationc1425
sequestrationa1450
exulation1535
extermination1586
deportation1595
exportationa1610
displantation1614
elimination1623
discommonwealthing1647
ejection1655
self-exile1712
uprooting1775
expatriation1816
dissettlement1880
uprootedness1927
1712 T. Ellwood Davideis iv. i. 208 He had recall'd him from his Self-Exile.
1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. vi. x. 247 The fortitude with which I will lengthen my self-exile, shall atone to myself for the weakness which makes it requisite!
1827 J. W. Donaldson Buckham's Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 137 The motives for this self-exile are obscure.
1852 H. W. Pierson Amer. Missionary Mem. 168 Duty to our Lord required self-exile from home.
1938 Mod. Lang Notes 53 584 During his [sc. Baudelaire's] self-exile at Brussels, he wrote Manet to send him a copy of one of the famous Rhapsodies.
1987 A. Miller Timebends (1988) viii. 571 Lyubimov would be in self-exile in Italy, having given up trying to work.
2002 Times 11 Sept. ii. 20/3 The writers in self-exile..pined for the fictional New York they had invented.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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