But he spent it with a group, his own group, of people who endured physical burdens and suffered ostracism.

Gertrude allowed a priest to stay and this became such a source of scandal that Houselander and her mother suffered ostracism in the community.

Now she would have to participate in the witch-hunt, lest she suffer ostracism by her companions, and it might be months before she had another such chance.

His family had earlier suffered ostracism, for permitting sermons by Jeremiah Burroughes to be said in their house; he was a shoemaker.

"I can't imagine anyone here taking 12 weeks - they'd suffer ostracism," Ms. Starr of Art kraft Strauss said.

Amerasian children in Vietnam, especially those whose fathers were black, suffer brutal ostracism.

According to Hamid Reza Sadr she suffered social ostracism in the conservative culture of the time for becoming an actress.

And as these people suffer economic deprivation and often social ostracism, they cling to their religious tenets like shipwrecked sailors to a raft.

The trauma of rape is aggravated by the fact that many of the victims then suffer social discrimination and ostracism by their families and communities.

Families of hunters suffer social ostracism.