ostracism

n.	1.	(Gr. Antiq.) Banishment by popular vote, - a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
	2.	Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism. Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great. - Bacon. Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . . confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his country. - A. Hamilton.

Noun	1.	ostracism - the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry" Synonyms: banishment, Coventry
	2.	ostracism - the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

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