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s | ostracism |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

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.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    ostracism

    English

    (wikipedia ostracism)

    Noun

  • (historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1579, year_published=1898, author=(Thomas North), by=(Plutarch)
    • , title= 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:
  • * {{quote-book, year=1588, year_published=1886, author=
    • , title= 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=
  • *, II.32:
  • *:Witnesse the Ostracisme'' amongst the Athenians, and the ''Petalisme among the Siracusans.
  • (figuratively) Banishment by some general consent.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1602—3, year_published=1994, author=(Lady Arbella Stuart)
    • , title= 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
  • Temporary exclusion from a community or society.

    • Synonyms

    * (exclusion) ostracization, shunning

    Derived terms

    * ostracize * ostracise

    See also

    * send to Coventry