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Excommunication

//ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    the state of being excommunicated wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.

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