Ostracism
['ɒstrəsɪz(ə)m] or ['ɑstrəsɪzəm]
Definition
(noun.) the act of excluding someone from society by general consent.
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Definition
(n.) Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
(n.) Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Banishment, expulsion, exclusion, excommunication.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Banishment, expulsion, blackball
ANT:Admittance, enlistment, out_voting
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- There was resort to an ostracism to decide between them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You should read history--look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This institution of the ostracism has immortalized one obscure and rather illiterate member of the democracy of Athens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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