self-exile

A voluntary exile; One who chooses to leave their homeland or community.

One source for the views of certain of these self-exiles is the newsletter of the Union of American Exiles, American Exile in Canada, published in Toronto for at least two years (1968 and 1969).

Indeed, in looking to Pound, Eliot and Stein, self-exiles all, he looks more to London and Paris than across the ocean.

The state of voluntary exile; The condition of choosing to leave one's homeland or community.

Self-exile to a convent residence was the traditionally dignified solution for an injured wife of her class.

He did not return to his "great idea" until the summer of 1795, when his self-exile in Osmannstadt freed him from the day-to-day demands of lecturing and allowed him to devote several months to preparing a new course on natural law.

Isolation from the world; A retreat from involvement with one's environment.

Chang's self-exile, however, aroused rather than thwarted her readers' desire; and they consumed anecdotes and hearsay about her life as eagerly as they did any of her works.

He resolved that this would be his last appearance on the political stage. Following his return to Buenos Aires, Mercante entered what his friend Rudolfo Decker would later describe as a period of “self-exile,” a self-imposed abstention from politics that would last until his death.

A separation or alienation from ones inner self.

The autobiographical gesture, writing the word “I,” is a move into self-exile or even self-extinction.

Part of the crisis and difficulty in this understanding is that we lose sense of ourselves and our communities together, in one and the same movement of self-exile from shared words and shared expressions.

To go into self-exile.

The agreement provided that Aguinaldo and his officers and men would self-exile abroad; Primo de Rivera will pay the rebels ₱800,000.00 in three installments until all the rebel soldiers would have surrendered; amnesty would be given to all those who would surrender; and an additional ₱900,000.00 would be paid by the Spanish government to the Filipino civilians and their families who were affected by the conflict.

If noticed, some will self-exile and accuse the government wrongfully without adequate reasons and are never extradited to face the justice against the crime they have committed and will be seen as African self-exiles (ASE).