How do you pronounce xenelasy?

The recorded pronunciation is /zɛˈniləsi/.

Where does xenelasy come from?

It is traced to Proto-Indo-European.

/zɛˈniləsi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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; […]"
"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."
"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.'"
"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."
"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[…]."

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ (xenēlăsĭ́ā, “expulsion of foreigners”) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state). Ξενηλᾰσῐ́ᾱ (Xenēlăsĭ́ā) is derived from ξενηλατεῖν (xenēlateîn, “to expel a foreigner”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, 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).

xenophobia xenorejection

xenelasia