ostracism

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The act of banishing or excluding.

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Banishment or exclusion from a group; disgrace.

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In Athens and other cities of ancient Greece, the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.

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A political measure employed under restrictions of law among the ancient Athenians, by which citizens whose presence seemed embarrassing to the state were banished by public vote for a term of ten years, with leave to return to the enjoyment of their estates at the end of the period.

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Hence Banishment in general; expulsion; separation: as, social ostracism (banishment from good society).

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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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Banishment; exclusion.

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Exclusion from a community or society.

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the act of excluding someone from society by general consent