“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It’s absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
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Excommunicate
//ˌɛkskəˈmjunəkeɪt//
Synonyms for "excommunicate" (96 found)
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49 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- حَرَمَ verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Armenian
1 entries- բանադրել verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Bulgarian
1 entries- отлъчвам от църквата verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Catalan
1 entries- excomunicar verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Danish
1 entries- ekskommunikere verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Esperanto
1 entries- ekskomuniki verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
French
2 entries- bannir verb (to exclude from any other group; to banish)
- excommunier verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
German
3 entries- bannen verb (to exclude from any other group; to banish)
- exkommunizieren verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- verbannen verb (to exclude from any other group; to banish)
Greek
1 entries- αφορίζω verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Hungarian
2 entries- kiközösít verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- kiközösít verb (to exclude from any other group; to banish)
Italian
1 entries- scomunicare verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Japanese
1 entries- 破門 verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Latin
1 entries- excommunicare verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Macedonian
2 entries- екскомуницира verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- изопшти verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- bannlyse verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- ekskommunisere verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- lyse i bann verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- utelukke fra den katolske kirke verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- bannlysa verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- bannlyse verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- ekskommunisere verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- lyse i bann verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Old English
1 entries- āmǣnsumian verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Old French
1 entries- escumengier verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Polish
4 entries- ekskomunikować verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- potępiać verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- potępić verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- wyklinać verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Portuguese
1 entries- excomungar verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Russian
4 entries- вы́гнать verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- выгоня́ть verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- изгна́ть verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- изгоня́ть verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ekskomunicírati verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- izòpćiti verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Spanish
1 entries- excomulgar verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Thai
2 entries- บัพพาชนียกรรม verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- บัพพาชนียกรรม verb (to exclude from any other group; to banish)
Welsh
2 entries- diaelodi verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
- esgymuno verb (to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community)
Sample sentences
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Samois includes celebate ^([sic]), heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.
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Although our Macs served us well, in those early, dark years Macintosh users were effectively excommunicated by the computer establishment.
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[…]the iewes had conſpyred allredy that yff eny man did confeſſe that he was Chriſt / he ſhulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge.
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