os·tra·cism /ˈɑstrəˌsɪzəm/
 貝殼流放,放逐,排斥


 os·tra·cism n.
 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.

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 ostracism
      n 1: 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" [syn: banishment, Coventry]
      2: the act of excluding someone from society by general consent