Ostracism

In 508BC, the ruler of Athens, Cleisthenes established ostracism to prevent the appearance of a tyrant.

Cancel culture is a modern form of ostracism.

Ostracism was a punishment in ancient Athens.

Soviet functionaries who didn't toe the party line were at risk of ostracism and imprisonment.

For this manner of banishment for a time, called ostracismos, was no punishment for any fault committed, but a mitigation and taking away of the envy of the people, which delighted to pluck down their stomacks that too much seemed to exceed in greatness: […]

Take the ſweete herbe called pleaſant content; with that make a perfume about your bed chamber and where you dyne: the ſavour of this is as ſure a repulſe to exile melancholie, as the oſtracisme was to the noble of Athens.

Witnesse the Ostracisme amongst the Athenians, and the Petalisme among the Siracusans.

If I have deserved the land should spue me out, I will feed my selfe with the idle and windy conceite of an Ostracisme, and my unregarded poore selfe shall be all the richesse and commpany I crave to transport and if a Princes word […]