Ostracism Definition & Meaning

ostracism
noun
  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"
  2. the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

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