Definition

1. 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

1. of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity)