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    ostracism


    1. What can one do to avoid complete social ostracism? That is a problem which you can work out for yourselves, according to your individual circumstances but to all of you I would say this, avoid these foods wherever possible but do not, in the process, offend anyone


    2. He wondered if he was undergoing some kind of ostracism


    3. And for the guilty, jail time and social ostracism awaited them


    4. Hopkins wanted to check on the rate of ostracism, but that would elude him


    5. Steele cites blacks who stray from the mandates of identity politics as having been confined to a “special gulag” of ostracism and calumny


    6. Thus ends an account on the behalf of one Bartleby Thomas, who--by no means of his own powers--lived his life in ostracism


    7. Dreams that occupy our daily spaces and encounters that which is the worst form of ostracism against change: bureaucracy


    8. trated this petty form of ostracism, the Symbolics controversy


    9. Unfortunately, any surrender would probably mean ostracism in China, or worse, for these soldiers once they were returned there after this war


    10. “Some by choice, others by fiat and ostracism

    11. Social infighting of the most vile vicious kind; Ostracism; rule of the mob, the rule of numbers; no individuality


    12. What was the worst punishment possible in Walking Ape societies? Ostracism


    13. Publicly marked with the dappled marks of diseased ostracism


    14. The slow elimination of people by ostracism: thinning down the group until only one person is left


    15. The only punishment these bird cages have: is the punishment of social ostracism


    16. No-one risks going to the wrong part of town for fear of crime and ostracism from their neighbours


    17. Chilton writes: 'Does it make sense that Christ would promise the church in Philadelphia protection from something that would happen thousands of years later? Be of good cheer, you faithful, suffering Christians of first century Asia Minor: I won't let those Soviet missiles and killer bees of the 20th century get you!' When the Philadelphian Christians were worried about more practical, immediate concerns&emdash;official persecution, religious discrimination, social ostracism, and economic boycotts&emdash;what did they care about Hal Lindsey's lucrative horror stories?" Brian M


    18. In keeping with the goal of reconciliation, the memorial council sought the participation of relatives of the guards who’d been convicted and hanged, but the families balked, fearing ostracism


    19. signed his final warrant of ostracism


    20. "But how will you make yourself proof against calumny? You should read history—look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing

    21. An aged pastor, who had endured ostracism and violence in New York State in the early times, on account of his anti-slavery opinions, was present during the meetings of the Association, and added greatly to their interest


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    Synonyms for "ostracism"

    ostracism banishment coventry

    "ostracism" definitions

    the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)


    the act of excluding someone from society by general consent