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Excommunication

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The act of excommunicating.

n. The state of being excommunicated.

n. A formal ecclesiastical censure that deprives a person of the right to belong to a church.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act of excommunicating 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.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A cutting off or casting out from communication; deprivation of communion or the privileges of intercourse; specifically, the formal exclusion of a person from religious communion and privileges.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the state of being excommunicated

n. 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

Word Usage

"But, the Holy Father made clear today that the lifting of the excommunication is about one thing only: Church unity."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

rejection proscription banishment

Cross Reference

excommunication by candle

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Alsatian Americanization Appalachian Balkanization Christianization

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

outlawry confiscation ostracism expulsion proscription