Exclude vs Ostracism - What's the difference?
exclude | ostracism |
To bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.
To expel; to put out.
(legal, of evidence) To refuse to accept as valid.
(medicine) To eliminate from diagnostic consideration.
(historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
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*:Witnesse the Ostracisme'' amongst the Athenians, and the ''Petalisme among the Siracusans.
(figuratively) Banishment by some general consent.
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, title= Temporary exclusion from a community or society.
As a verb exclude
is to bar (someone) from entering; to keep out.As a noun ostracism is
(historical) in ancient athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.exclude
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Verb
(exclud)- to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs
Antonyms
* includeostracism
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(wikipedia ostracism)Noun
Plutarch's Lives, section=Themistocles, volume=2, page=35 , passage= For this manner of banishment for a time, called ostracismos , was no punishment for any fault committed, but a mitigation and taking away of the envy of the people, which delighted to pluck down their stomacks that too much seemed to exceed in greatness:
The life and complete works in prose and verse of Robert Greene, chapter=Perimedes the Blacke-Smith, editor=(Alexander Balloch Grosart), volume=7, page=19 , passage=
The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, publisher=Oxford University Press, location=New York, editor=Sara Jayne Steen, page=171 , passage=If I have deserved the land should spue me out, I will feed my selfe with the idle and windy conceite of an Ostracisme , and my unregarded poore selfe shall be all the richesse and commpany I crave to transport and if a Princes word