Excommunication

['ɛkskə,mjʊnə'keʃən]

Definition

(noun.) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society.

(noun.) the state of being excommunicated.

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Definition

(n.) The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Dismission, or expulsion (from the church), denunciation, proscription, anathema, ban.

Typist: Robinson

Examples

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