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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

depotatio

: cf. F.

déportation

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

In their

deportations

, they had often the favor of their conquerors.

Atterbury.

Noun.

Transportation; a carrying away; a removal from one country to another, or to a distant place; exile; banishment.