Ostracism vs Exile - What's the difference?
ostracism | exile |
(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.
The state of being banished from one's home or country.
* Shakespeare
Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
* Shakespeare
To send into exile.
* Tennyson
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between ostracism and exile
is that ostracism is in ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state while exile is the state of being banished from one's home or country.As a verb exile is
to send into exile.ostracism
English
(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
Synonyms
* (exclusion) ostracization, shunningDerived terms
* ostracize * ostraciseSee also
* send to Coventryexile
English
Noun
(wikipedia exile) (en noun)- Let them be recalled from their exile .
- Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.
Synonyms
* (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expatDerived terms
* internal exileVerb
(exil)- Exiled from eternal God.
- Calling home our exiled friends abroad.