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  • "The Ostracized: One Man Alone," I had called it.  (source)
    Ostracized = excluded from a community or group
  • A plantation owner who lived openly with a slave woman would have been socially ostracized, and any offspring from the union of black and white would have been left in slavery.  (source)
    ostracized = excluded (not accepted as a fellow member of the community)
  • Their lives always center around work and their children and other women (since a woman cannot really have a man for a friend without the worst kind of ostracism and gossip).  (source)
    ostracism = exclusion of someone from a community or group
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  • If Sophie couldn't be ostracized, I was the next best thing.  (source)
    ostracized = excluded from a community or group
  • And with the laws, the punishments--and there were only two--a quick and murderous fight or ostracism;  (source)
    ostracism = to exclude someone from a community or group
  • We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracize and minimize.†  (source)
  • But he did allow himself to be persuaded, otherwise he would have been ostracised.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it ostracized.
  • They were, according to the book, disowned by their families, snubbed by their friends and ostracized from every society.  (source)
    ostracized = excluded from a community or group
  • It was the accordion that most likely spared him from total ostracism.†  (source)
  • Every other villager would immediately realize that they were HIV-positive and would ostracize them.†  (source)
  • The whole team ostracized me the whole way back on the train.  (source)
    ostracized = excluded
  • In keeping with the goal of reconciliation, the memorial council sought the participation of relatives of the guards who'd been convicted and hanged, but the families balked, fearing ostracism.†  (source)
  • I also hope that I can get through to the people who think it's acceptable to ostracize pregnant teens and insult them for their mistakes.†  (source)
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