· the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent); "the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"
Synonym(s): ostracism, Coventry
Hypernym(s): exclusion
· rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
Synonym(s): proscription
Hypernym(s): rejection