Society tends to ostracize the sufferer who is loath to admit or discuss the condition.
This feeling of the miners, that they are a class apart, segregated, exploited, ostracized, unfortunately, is no transient symptom.
Frankly, parents have been conditioned by a system which has virtually ostracized them for many years.
There is another important problem, which is how to prevent the sick from being ostracized.
Prominent in this connection was the decay of faith in earlier methods of retributive vengeance designed to eliminate the criminal offender, ostracize him, or permanently stigmatize him.
They were often ostracized by their community for having engaged in a relationship with a foreigner - even when often, it appears, it was done against her will.
Choosing whom she will marry against her parents' wishes, and expressing women's desire in her poetry, she is ostracized for violating her family's honor.
They become aware of it and ostracize a pronunciation only if it has become the linguistic badge of the disesteemed.
