ostracism /(?)/

os·tra·cism

ostracism

n.
  1. Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage. (Gr. Antiq.)
  2. Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism.
    Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great.
    Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . . confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his country.