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Deportation   /dˌipɔrtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Deportation

noun
1.
The act of expelling a person from their native land.  Synonyms: exile, expatriation, transportation.  "His deportation to a penal colony" , "The expatriation of wealthy farmers" , "The sentence was one of transportation for life"
2.
The expulsion from a country of an undesirable alien.






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"Deportation" Quotes from Famous Books



... benevolent man, who fearlessly visited by himself the most hostile of the natives, the whole were induced to act in a similar manner. They were then removed to an island, where food and clothes were provided them. Count Strzelecki states that "at the epoch of their deportation in 1835, the number of natives amounted to 210. In 1842, that is after the interval of seven years, they mustered only fifty-four individuals; and, while each family of the interior of New South Wales, uncontaminated by contact with the whites, swarms with ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin

... failed to protect her. Certainly the immigration laws might do better than to send a girl back to her parents, diseased and disgraced because America has failed to safeguard her virtue from the machinations of well-known but unrestrained criminals. The possibility of deportation on the charge of prostitution is sometimes utilized by jealous husbands or rejected lovers. Only last year a Russian girl came to Chicago to meet her lover and was deceived by a fake marriage. Although the man basely deserted her within ...
— A New Conscience And An Ancient Evil • Jane Addams

... his Excellency familiarly on the shoulder, "he will pay me with an order for five days in prison, or five months, or an order of deportation made out in blank, or let us say a summary execution by the Civil Guard while my man is being conducted ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal

... that easy probing of the well-known friend, "there is something eating at your mind these days. The trade goes differently from that of last year. It is not so all-absorbing. I fear me that the Nor'westers, with their plundering and their tales of deportation, have ...
— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe

... through a considerable district, and compared existing churches there with records, traditions, and memories of what they formerly were. The shifting of old windows and other details irregularly spaced, and spacing them at exact distances, has been one process. The deportation of the original chancel arch to an obscure nook and the insertion of a wider new one, to throw open the view of the choir, is a practice by no means extinct. Next in turn to the re-designing of old buildings and parts of them comes the devastation caused by letting restorations by contract, with ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield

... Emancipation brought up at once the problem of what should be done with the freed negroes. The very next day after the preliminary proclamation was issued (September 23, 1862), the President presented the matter to the assembled Cabinet. Deportation was considered, and some of those present urged that this should be compulsory. The President, however, would not consider this; the emigration of the negroes, he said, must be voluntary, and without expense to themselves. It was proposed to deport the freedmen ...
— The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln • Francis Fisher Browne

... by Parliament and the country, and to the difficulty with which remedial enactments were carried through the legislature.... Nevertheless, the anomalous state of the law, which undoubtedly permits forcible arrest and deportation by private individuals and the fearful consequences of fraud or error, have induced the Committee carefully to inquire whether any additional safeguards may ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke

... Scotia, New Brunswick and adjacent islands. It was first colonized by the French in 1604. It is more particularly of the French settlers in Nova Scotia that Bancroft writes. These were deported by the British in 1755. Longfellow's poem "Evangeline" is founded on an incident in this deportation, by which two lovers were hopelessly parted. Hawthorne is said first to have heard this story and considered it as the theme for a novel, but, unable to use it satisfactorily to himself, he ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various

... likewise adhere to the theory of a mixed race, originating in the settlement of Chinese in the south of Ceylon, but they refer the event to a period subsequent to the seizure of the Singhalese king and his deportation to China in the fifteenth century. DE BARROS, Dec. iii. ch. i.; DE COUTO, ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... of a copy by a Filipino usually meant summary imprisonment or deportation, often with the concomitant confiscation of property for the benefit of some "patriot," the book was widely read among the leading families and had the desired effect of crystallizing the sentiment against the friars, thus to pave ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal



Words linked to "Deportation" :   banishment, Babylonian Captivity, exile, proscription, expulsion, deport, exclusion, riddance, ejection



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