Ostracism is valid Scrabble Word

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9 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for OSTRACISM in dictionary:

NOUN:

expulsion from society
exclusion from a society or group
(in ancient Greece) temporary banishment from a city by popular vote
Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage.
Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
the act of excluding someone from society by general consent

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a method of temporary banishment by popular vote without trial or special accusation practiced in ancient Greece

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How to use OSTRACISM in a sentence

However, she faced Musgrave coldly, and thought how ludicrously wide of the mark were all these threats of ostracism.
One of the provisions of ostracism was that the person banished should remain in exile for ten years.
And finally, he underwent the trial of ostracism with Thucydides, and not only succeeded in driving him into exile, but broke up his party.
Discipline and restraint are the cardinal principles of our conduct and I warn you against any sort of tyrannical social ostracism.
Now I fear that ostracism to a certain extent is impossible to avoid.
Ostracism is violent or peaceful in according to the manner in which it is practised.
But for the moment Racey felt his ostracism and resented it.
The higher the plane of culture the colored women and girls reach, the more sensitive they become, and the more keenly the effects of ostracism are felt.
There my complexion was not a target for insult and ostracism.
Granted that, owing to social ostracism, the outward degradation of impurity to the woman is far greater, I contend that a deeper inner debasement is its sure fruition in the man.

Subsequent to 1872 and prior to 1875 race proscription and social ostracism had been completely abandoned.
Social ostracism is gradually giving way among the more intelligent Christian people.
This collection is at least doubled by those I have now here, all received since my last ostracism.
The warning, if he only escaped this species of ostracism very narrowly, might do him a great deal of moral good.
Annie Besant, its advocates have faced imprisonment and ostracism.
After the nursing incident he had married her, with benefit of clergy, and the result had been hell, a living suicide, ostracism.
Considering the sensitive and pious disposition of the average Irishman, such ostracism was even more poignant than it would be to an Englishman.
Hence he scarcely noticed a slow but widening ostracism which shut him out from house after house, under the pressure of the Pierce influence.
She bore her ostracism almost fiercely, yet there were times when I felt her eyes on me, singularly gentle and appealing.
Thayer asked him if in England he had been subjected to personal hostility for his opinions, or to anything like social ostracism.
The social ostracism I had expected when I stepped into the political arena, proved to be Bunyan lions.
You know well enough how these devoted missionaries have braved social ostracism, and shut themselves in to their lowly ministry.
The most effective of all peaceful methods if petty persecution rising at times to social ostracism.
For which ostracism, madam, I care not a brass farthing.
They still laboured under a sense of having been compromised, and of resultant social ostracism.
Ostracism and banishment accentuate the humiliation of marriage to a barbarian.
Soon wearying of his ostracism, Goree had departed for his office, muttering to himself as he unsteadily traversed the unlucky pathway.
Middleton, of his own authority, now proposed the ostracism, by parliamentary ballot, of twelve persons reckoned dangerous.
He knew that this meant banishment, ostracism, and persecution by the Government.
And now an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism is applied, not only to all who express themselves against Slavery, but to every man unwilling to be its menial.

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