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          Ostracism

          Democratic procedure for expelling citizens

          "Ostracised" redirects here. For the 1881 Australian play, see Ostracised (play).

          Ostracism (Greek: ὀστρακισμός, ostrakismos) was an Athenian democratic procedure in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state of Athens for ten years.

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          5. While some instances clearly expressed popular anger at the citizen, ostracism was often used preemptively. It was used as a way of neutralizing someone thought to be a threat to the state or a potential tyrant, though in many cases popular opinion often informed the expulsion.

          The word "ostracism" continues to be used for various forms of shunning.

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          The term "ostracism" is derived from the pottery shards that were used as voting tokens, called ostraka (singular: ostrakonὄστρακον) in Greek.[1] Broken pottery, abundant and virtually free, served as a kind of scrap paper (in contrast to papyrus, which was imported from Egypt as a high-quality writing su