different between ostracism vs outlawry

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (ostrakismós, “banishment by means of voting with pot shards”), from ??????????? (ostrakízein, “ostracize”) + -????? (-ismós, “-ism”), from ???????? (óstrakon, “clay pot”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??st??s?z(?)m/

Noun

ostracism (countable and uncountable, plural ostracisms)

1. (historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state. [from 16th c.]
2. (figuratively) Banishment by some general consent. [from 17th c.]
3. Temporary exclusion from a community or society.

Synonyms

• (exclusion): ostracization, shunning, petalism

Derived terms

• ostracize, ostracise

Translations

See also

• send to Coventry

Anagrams

• Castroism, Croatisms, Socratism, microsats, rotacisms

Romanian

Etymology

From French ostracisme

Noun

ostracism n (uncountable)

1. ostracism

Declension

English

Etymology

From outlaw +? -ry, after Anglo-Norman utlagarie, utlarie et al., and Late Latin utlagaria.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?tl???i/

Noun

outlawry (countable and uncountable, plural outlawries)

1. (law, historical) A declaration that an individual cannot benefit from the protection of law in a jurisdiction. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1649, John Milton, Observations upon the Articles of Peace with the Irish Rebels […]

     Notwithstanding any disposition made or to be made , by virtue or colour of any attainder , outlawry , fugacy , or other forfeiture

2. The state of being an outlaw; lawlessness. [from 19th c.]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 134:

     Through this ‘passing-out ceremony’ the apprentice became both proven in reliability and bound, Faust-like, to the rebel cause by his act of outlawry.

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