[f. prec. vb.: see -ATION.]
1. The banishing a person from his own country; the state of being banished; banishment, exile.
1816. Keatinge, Trav. (1817), I. 31. This part of France appears never to have recovered the effects of a political sore,—always long in cicatrizing,—an expatriation.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 534. The longer his expatriation, the greater does this hallucination become.
1860. Morley, Netherl. (1868), I. iii. 92. The expatriation of wealthy merchants.
2. The action of leaving one’s country for another; emigration. Also, in the Law of Nations, renunciation of one’s country.
1825. T. Jefferson, Autobiog., Wks. 1859, I. 8. Expatriation being a natural right.
1839. Yeowell, Anc. Brit. Ch., x. (1847), 107. The bishops and clergy … sought refuge in expatriation.
1868. Rogers, Pol. Econ., xix. 256. The voluntary expatriation of those who have the energy or enterprise to leave the home of their birth.
1889. Phillimore, Internat. Law (ed. 3), IV. 274. Expatriation, Any British subject … who may … after the passing of this Act … voluntarily become naturalized in such state … shall … be deemed to have ceased to be a British subject.
