Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

ostracism

ostracism , noun

[Greek 'ostrakismo`s, from 'ostraki`zein to ostracize. See Ostracize.]

1.
(Greek Antiquities) 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