Pariah vs Ostracism - What's the difference?
pariah | ostracism |
An outcast.
A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
Someone in exile.
A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
A person who is rejected (from society or home).
(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 nouns the difference between pariah and ostracism
is that pariah is an outcast while ostracism is (historical) in ancient athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.pariah
English
(wikipedia pariah)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 2014 : (Sylvia Ann Hewlett), (Executive Presence), Prologue *: I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah , since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know. * 1985 — , The Two Doctors , p 14 *: ‘I’m a pariah , outlawed from Time Lord society.’ * 1842 — , The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/fitz/preface.html]) *: What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.Synonyms
* See alsoAnagrams
* *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