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ostracism
[ os-truh-siz-uhm ]
noun
- exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- (in ancient Greece) temporary banishment of a citizen, decided upon by popular vote.
Word History and Origins
Origin of ostracism1
Example Sentences
But what the boy geeks miss, she argues, is that they are not the only ones who have to deal with harassment or ostracism.
Martyrdom, in this context, being defined as “mockery, slander, ostracism.”
Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper, labelled the authorities' behavior as “vile ostracism” toward those faiths.
Shame and ostracism are not guaranteed to be effective; like the recalcitrant husband, Israel may indeed dig in.
What would be the point besides at a minimum misery, isolation, ostracism, and constant behind-the-back derision?
With the gossip already clinging to her name, marriage to Bowden meant also social ostracism.
Shortly after the democracy obtained another triumph in the ostracism of Cimon .
Thinking over my sudden ostracism in Pettinger's house that night I only became more and more mystified.
While in Russia this took the form of actual massacre, in Germany and Austria it assumed the shape of social and civic ostracism.
The white man who has been restored to absolute power so as to establish social ostracism, segregation and lynching is a success.
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