self-exile
Speech parts
1. self-exile - Noun
2. self-exile - Verb
Meaning
(countable) A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.
(uncountable) The state of voluntary exile; The condition of choosing to leave one's homeland or community.
(uncountable) Isolation from the world; A retreat from involvement with one's environment.
(uncountable) A separation or alienation from ones inner self.
self-exile (third-person singular simple present self-exiles, present participle self-exiling, simple past and past participle self-exiled)
To go into self-exile.
Synonyms
Examples
He left the state of Lu without resigning, remaining in self-exile and unable to return as long as Viscount Ji Huan was alive.
In the missive addressed to Felipe, Juan Carlos didn’t say when he would leave Spain or where his self-exile would take him.
Her ally Tsepkalo left Belarus on Sunday for Moscow, where her husband, Valery Tsepkalo, another opposition leader barred from running, is already in self-exile with their children.
Law is now in self-exile in the U.K. and is being sought by Hong Kong police under a new national security law for allegedly colluding with foreign forces, a charge for which he could face up to life in prison.
One top issue between the two leaders will be Turkey’s demand to extradite the Pennsylvania-based Gülen, who has been in self-exile in the U.S. since late 1990s.
Indeed, not many Nigerians have forgotten how those whose toes the former anti-graft czar stepped on, when they had the opportunity to take their pound of flesh, hunted and hounded him into a cold and lonely life in self-exile.