excommunication
Meanings
Plural: excommunications
Noun
- the state of being excommunicated
- 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
- The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially 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.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.
Synonyms
censure, disfellowshipment, excision, exclusion, excommunion
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