xenelasy

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ (xenēlasíā, “expulsion of foreigners”) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state). Ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ (Xenēlasíā) is derived from ξενηλατεῖν (xenēlateîn, “to expel a foreigner”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns); and ξενηλατεῖν (xenēlateîn) is from ξένος (xénos, “foreigner; stranger”) (probably from Pre-Greek) + ἐλαύνω (elaúnō, “to drive, set in motion; to drive away”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁elh₂- (“to drive somewhere”)) + -ειν (-ein, suffix forming infinitives of verbs).^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /zɛˈniːləsi/, /zɪˈnɛ-/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /zɛˈniləsi/
• Hyphenation: xen‧e‧lasy

xenelasy (uncountable)

1. (Ancient Greece, historical) The practice of expelling foreigners in Doric Crete and Lacedaemonia.

   Synonym: xenelasia

   • 1846, George Grote, “Laws and Discipline of Lykurgus at Sparta”, in History of Greece, 2nd edition, volume II, London: John Murray, , published 1849, →OCLC, part II (Historical Greece), pages 537–538:

     The old discipline and the public mess (as far as the rich were concerned) had degenerated into mere forms—a numerous body of strangers or non-citizens (the old xenêlasy, or prohibition of resident strangers, being long discontinued) were domiciled in the town, forming a powerful moneyed interest; […]

   • 1853, chapter III, in Passion and Pedantry, , volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, , →OCLC, pages 39–40:

     Le Roi was in London, cook to a gambling house, while the Baron Squrzenstern Von Hairontuft, had been warned off the premises by a process nearly allied to the Spartan "Xenelasy," so Desmond was left alone.

   • 1855, Richard Congreve, “Πολιτικων Β [Politikōn B]”, in Aristotle, ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΟΥΣ ΤΑ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΑ : The Politics of Aristotle , London: John W Parker and Son , →OCLC, footnote 15, page 93, column 1:

     For the effect produced at Sparta by their institution of Xenelasy,—the prohibiting the residence of foreigners—is produced at Crete by the isolation their insular position brings with it. 'Their distance is equivalent to xenelasy.'

   • 1863, William Edward Hearn, “Of the Circumstances which Determine the Extent of Exchange”, in Plutology: Or The Theory of Efforts to Satisfy Human Wants, Melbourne, Vic.: George Robertson, , →OCLC, § 4, pages 261–262:

     Where no actual prohibition exists, the conditions on which foreigners are admitted are sometimes so onerous as practically to exclude them. […] There is indeed little difference between the restrictive laws of modern European and American policy and the rude xenelasy of the Spartans, or the selfcomplacent exclusive system of the Chinese.

   • 1972, J H W Verzijl, “The Law Relating to Aliens”, in International Law in Historical Perspective, part V (Nationality and Other Matters Relating to Individuals), Leiden, South Holland: A[lbertus] W[illem] Sijthoff, →ISBN, section 2 (Admission, Sojourn and Expulsion of Aliens), page 425:

     Massive expulsion of (enemy) aliens—xenelasy—has often occurred in the past, e.g., by France on the outbreak of the Franco-German war of 1870, by Turkey on the occasion of her wars with Greece in 1897 and with Italy in 1911 […].

     Applied to a modern-day situation.

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