xenelasy
English
Alternative forms
- xenelasia
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενηλασία (xenēlasía, “expulsion of barbarians”).
Noun
xenelasy (uncountable)
- The expulsion of foreigners.
- 1846, George Grote, A History of Greece
- […] a numerous body of strangers or non-citizens (the old xenelasy, or prohibition of resident strangers, being long discontinued) domiciled in the town, and forming a powerful moneyed interest […]
- 1846, George Grote, A History of Greece