資料來源 : pyDict
貝殼流放,放逐,排斥
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Ostracism \Os"tra*cism\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to ostracize. See
{Ostracize}.]
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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
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