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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-280/
- Published: 2020-11-01T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-01T08:04:54.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

The word for today is…

ostracize (also ostracise – mainly British usage) (verb) – 1\. To exclude from a group or society.

1. To banish by ostracism, as in ancient Greece.

Source : The Free Dictionary

Etymology : “Exile by ostracism, banish by popular vote,” also in a figurative sense, “to exclude from society or favor,” 1640s, from Latinized form of Greek ostrakizein “to banish,” literally “to banish by voting with potshards”.

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