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excommunication
n. exclusion from the rites of the church, banishment, expulsion


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Excommunication
Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive or suspend membership in a religious community. The word literally means out of communion, or no longer in communion. In some churches, excommunication includes spiritual condemnation of the member or group. Censures and sanctions sometimes follow excommunication; these include banishmentshunning, and shaming, depending on the group's religion or religious community. This article addresses excommunication and spiritual condemnation often associated with excommunication, but not the religious censures and sanctions that follow excommunication.
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excommunication
Noun
1. the state of being excommunicated
(synonym) exclusion, censure
(hypernym) rejection
(derivation) excommunicate
2. the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church; cutting a person off from a religious society
(synonym) excision
(hypernym) banishment, proscription
(derivation) excommunicate, curse


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excommunication (f)
n. excommunication, excommunicate

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Excommunication
(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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