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Ostracism

  1. noun

    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

    Similar: banishment, coventry

  2. noun

    the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

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