noun
1. the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
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the association should get rid of its elderly members—not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry
• Hypernyms: ↑exclusion
2. rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
• Syn: ↑proscription
• Derivationally related forms: ↑proscribe (for: ↑proscription), ↑banish
• Hypernyms: ↑rejection
• Hyponyms:
↑anathematization, ↑anathematisation, ↑disbarment, ↑ejection, ↑exclusion, ↑expulsion, ↑riddance, ↑exile, ↑deportation, ↑expatriation, ↑transportation, ↑excommunication, ↑excision, ↑relegation, ↑rustication
Useful english dictionary. 2012.