村むら八はち分ぶ

noun

ostracism; shunning; sending to Coventry

Originally the harshest punishment in Edo-period village law, where a household was completely cut off from the community. In modern usage, it refers to any severe social ostracism or exclusion from a group.

• 彼かれは村むら八はち分ぶにされて、誰だれも口くちをきいてくれなくなった。

  He was ostracized, and no one would talk to him anymore.

• SNSで村むら八はち分ぶのような扱あつかいを受うける人ひとが増ふえている。

  More and more people are being treated like outcasts on social media.