ostracism
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Ostracism was such a severe punishment that dissenters usually relented within 24 hours, paying whatever fine the elders demanded.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2016
Ostracism by some other faculty and a seemingly retaliatory rebuke from the administration.
From Forbes • May 27, 2015
Ostracism would have run the strong risk of him going down a route which was almost a prophecy of what happened to Terry Newton.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2011
Ostracism here means not a ten years’ exile, but lifelong banishment.
From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot
Ostracism is, in these instances, still feeling its way, and its action is contradictory because it has not made up its mind.
From The Cult of Incompetence by Barstow, Beatrice
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