exilic
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Relating to exile: Pertaining to, characteristic of, or occurring during a period of forced absence from one's own country or home.
- Specifically historical: Often used in reference to the Babylonian exile of the Jewish people (the Babylonian Captivity) in the 6th century BCE.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The poet's exilic works are filled with longing for his homeland.
- The exilic period was a time of profound theological development for the Jewish community.
Advanced Usage
- "exilic literature": A body of writing produced by or about people in exile, often exploring themes of displacement, loss, and identity.
- Scholars study exilic literature to understand the diaspora experience.
- "exilic condition": The state or experience of being in exile.
- The novel captures the profound loneliness of the exilic condition.
Variants and Related Words
- Exile (n): The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. Also, a person who lives in exile.
- The writer lived in exile for twenty years.
- Exile (v): To expel and bar someone from their native country.
- The regime exiled its political opponents.
Synonyms
- Banishment-related: Of or pertaining to banishment, expulsion, or deportation.
- Diasporic: Relating to a scattered population whose origin lies in a separate geographic locale (often overlaps in context).
Related Phrases
- In exile: The adverbial phrase describing the state.
- The government operated in exile during the war.
- Go into exile: The verbal phrase for the act of leaving.
- The deposed king was forced to go into exile.
Related Idioms
- A voice in the wilderness: An idiom sometimes associated with an exilic or isolated perspective, referring to someone expressing an unpopular opinion or prophecy.
- His warnings were like a voice in the wilderness until the crisis proved him right.
Adjective
- of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity)