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- noun Alternative form of
ostracization .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"The name widow means ostracisation, which means all fault lies in the women," said Nighat Shafi Pandit, who founded the Help foundation to assist orphans and underprivileged women.
Plight of young brides in Kashmir, sold to older strangers for a pittance 2012
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The competition was a bit daft for a film which has segregation and ostracisation though.
EW Praises Sexist Marketing as “Clever” » Comics Worth Reading 2009
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Todwong said that most mutilation victims have suffered some level of ostracisation upon return to their communities, adding to the trauma of torture by the LRA.
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Shame has prevented many from returning to their original homes or to share their painful memories out of fear of ostracisation and loss of economic security, it added.
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Well, as a gay guy who grew up in the Islamic Republic of Iran in the days when they ROUTINELY hanged and murdered gays as opposed to now, where the hanging are only sporadic, I can only say one thing: the threat of torture and hangings and eternal damnation in the next, and actual ostracisation and physical intimidation in this world, were not enough to beat the impulse out of me.
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Even if such laws are rarely carried out, taboos oblige lesbians and gays in most African countries to keep their sexuality to themselves, on pain of ostracisation and ridicule.
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We believe that the isolation and ostracisation of the President and the government will not work.
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Negating all effort to de-stigmatise HIV/AIDS will certainly result in the ostracisation of ex-offenders.
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Victims can also suffer loss of face and social ostracisation leading to family hardships and break-up in marriage, she said.
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But Rick Fenton, a church spokesman, defended the passages, saying ostracisation was "a personal matter for each individual to decide for himself".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011
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