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ostracism
(encz) | ostracism,ignorování n: PetrV |
ostracism
(encz) | ostracism,ostrakismus n: Zdeněk Brož |
ostracism
(encz) | ostracism,vyobcování n: PetrV |
ostracism
(gcide) | ostracism \os"tra*cism\, n. [Gr. 'ostrakismo`s, fr.
'ostraki`zein to ostracize. See Ostracize.]
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.
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2. Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
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Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men
when they grow too great. --Bacon.
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Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . .
confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his
country. --A. Hamilton.
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ostracism
(wn) | ostracism
n 1: 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" [syn: banishment, ostracism,
Coventry]
2: the act of excluding someone from society by general consent |
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