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- noun The
expulsion offoreigners .
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Ancient Greek
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vanishedone commented on the word xenelasy
The Spartans' word for expulsion of foreigners. The OED quotes George Grote: 'Nor were strangers permitted to stay at Sparta; they came thither it seems, by a sort of sufferance, but the uncourteous process called xenêlasy was always available to remove them.'
September 28, 2008