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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Ostracism  \Os"tra*cism\,  n.  [Gr.  ?,  fr  ?  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. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  ostracism 
  n  1:  the  state  of  being  banished  or  ostracized  (excluded  from 
  society  by  general  consent)  [syn:  {banishment}] 
  2:  the  act  of  excluding  someone  from  society  by  general  consent 




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