Noun ostracism has 2 senses
  1. banishment, ostracism, Coventry - 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"
    --1 is a kind of exclusion
    Derived forms: verb ostracize1, verb ostracize2, verb ostracise1, verb ostracise2
  2. ostracism - the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
    --2 is a kind of
    ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
    Derived forms: verb ostracize1, verb ostracize2, verb ostracise1, verb ostracise2
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