Noun
- 1. banishment, ostracism, Coventry, exclusion
- usage: 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"
- 2. ostracism, ejection, exclusion, expulsion, riddance
- usage: the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
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