Ostracize vs Abrogate - What's the difference?
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To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with (them) or by refusing to acknowledge (their) presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun.
* 2003 , Cele C. Otnes, Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck, Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish Wedding ,
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* 2007 , Petra Hauf and Friedrich Försterling (editors), Making Minds: The shaping of human minds through social context ,
(lb) To ban a person from the city of (l) for ten years.
(archaic) Abrogated; abolished.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.4:
To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc.
* (rfdate) (Robert South)
* (Edmund Burke), 1796. Letter I. On the Overtures of Peace.
To put an end to; to do away with.
(molecular biology) Block a process or function
As verbs the difference between ostracize and abrogate
is that ostracize is to exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with (them) or by refusing to acknowledge (their) presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun while abrogate is to annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or her or his successor; to repeal; — applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc .As an adjective abrogate is
(archaic) abrogated; abolished .ostracize
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Alternative forms
* ostracise (non-Oxford British spelling)Verb
- Lesbian studies scholar Ramona Oswald has extended this criticism by arguing that traditions such as the bouquet toss and the "singles" table at the wedding reception often marginalize and ostracize lesbians and gays in attendance.
- Children ostracize' other children in the playground, choosing carefully who they wish to play with. Adults ' ostracize other adults, such as marriage partners using the silent treatment.
See also
* cut someone dead * silent treatmentExternal links
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Adjective
(-)- Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes incandesced by the visionary light of a massive rapacity, wave on wave of the violent and insane, their brains stoked with spoorless analogues of all that was, lean aryans with their abrogate semitic chapbook reenacting the dramas and parables therein and mindless and pale with a longing that nothing save dark's total restitution could appease.
Verb
(abrogat)- Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old.
- Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they cannot alter or abrogate .