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Noun Concept
Categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Shunning, Athenian democracy, Group processes, Ancient Greek society
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ostracism  ostracise  ostracised  ostracize  ostracized
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The act of excluding someone from society by general consent WordNet 3.0
English:
ancient Greece
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The act of excluding someone from society by general consent WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Ostracism was an Athenian democratic procedure in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years. Wikipedia
Procedure under the Athenian democracy in which a citizen could be expelled from Athens for 10 years Wikidata
In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state. Wiktionary
IS A
ejection
exile
HAS KIND
petalism
COUNTRY
Classical Athens
DERIVATION
banish
ostracize
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
NAMED AFTER
ostracon
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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ostracism
Wikipedia
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ostracism
Wikidata
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ostracism
Wiktionary
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ostracism
Wikipedia Redirections
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ostracise, ostracised, Ostracism (ancient Greece), ostracize, ostracized, ostrakismos, Qahr and Ashti, Οστρακισμός

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