Home › Words › B › bannitionbannitionbannition means the act of expulsion.EtymologyFrom Latin bannitio. See banish.nounThe act of expulsion.e.g.“March 6, 1640, William Laud, letter to A. Frewen You will take order, when he comes out of the castle, to send him out of the university too by bannition.”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.banishment 83% match — The act of banishing. vs bannition →bannination 80% match — A ban. vs bannition →banning 75% match — The act by which something is banned; a prohibition. vs bannition →banninate 72% match — To ban. vs bannition →banished 67% match — Having been subject to banishment; kicked out and forbidden from returning; forbidden and prohibited. vs bannition →bannimus 66% match — A permanent, publicly promulgated expulsion from the University of Oxford, whose public posting served to prevent the expelled person from claiming the cause of expulsion was unknown. vs bannition →banish 65% match — To send (someone) away and forbid them from returning. vs bannition →banishing 65% match — A magical ritual intended to remove negative spiritual influences. vs bannition →