#456 exile

exile- a prolonged, usually enforced absence from one's home or country; banishment; expatriate

C13 from Latin exsilium banishment, from exsul ; perhaps related to Greek alasthai to wander

His parents were Russian radicals in exile from the Tsarist regime.

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