ostracism
英 ['ɒstrəsɪz(ə)m]
美['ɑstrəsɪzəm]
- n. 排斥；放逐；贝壳流放法
英英释意
- 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"
- 2. the act of excluding someone from society by general consent