ostracism

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  1. noun The act of banishing or excluding.
  2. noun Banishment or exclusion from a group; disgrace.
  3. noun In Athens and other cities of ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.

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  • They seem to require a certain kind of uniform that would look totally ridiculous in any other context; wear your own normal clothes, however, and ostracism will be yours on the dancefloor when (I've Had) The Time of My Life - gotta love a song with brackets in the title!
  • This law of ostracism is as dangerous in science as it was of old in politics. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Thomas Carlyle
  • The viciousness of the ostracism has been apparent for months. —  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
  • Some investigators have said there is evidence to suggest the Columbine shooters were victims of bullying or ostracism, and Godwin says this is a nationwide problem. —  CNN.com
  • Social ostracism was the least of them Perhaps no one person in America did more to crystalize public sentiment against slavery than Lydia Maria Child. —  American Men of Mind
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  1. French ostracisme, from Greek ostrakismos, from ostrakizein, to ostracize; see ostracize.

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  1. = French ostracisme = Spanish Portuguese Italian ostracismo = German ostracismus, from New Latin ostracismus, from Greek ὀστρακισ, σ1μός, ostracism, from ὀστρακίζειν, ostracize: see ostracize.
 

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/ˈɑstrəsɪzm/
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