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excommunication::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | excision |
| Type of | banishment, proscription |
| Derivation | excommunicate |
Examples of excommunication
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Dioscorus pronounced the sentence of deposition and excommunication of Theodoret.
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Catholics are still forbidden to join the Masons under pain of excommunication.
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Membership to any secret society would also incur the penalty of excommunication.
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As Muslim soldiers, they had the advantage of immunity from papal excommunication.
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Excommunication, deposition and the interdict appeared to be imminent in 1074.
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To act against their admonitions is to risk excommunication and possibly damnation.
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I couldn't disclose the secret recipe for fear of Bernardini excommunication.
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For celebrating the marriage of a priest, he too may be subject to excommunication.
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Priests have been threatening excommunication of anyone who plans to vote Communist.
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- 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
- (excommunicate) exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
- 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
- (Excommunicate) the punishment of cutting off a person from receiving the sacraments and exclusion from the communion of the church.
- (Excommunicate) To exclude, by an act of ecclesiastical authority, from the sacriments, rights, and priveleges of a church
- (Excommunicated) A member is taken off the official membership roster -- they are said to no longer have their "name on the books." They are told they are no longer welcome. Excommunicated members are usually treated as separate by family members who are still involved with HOJ. ...
- (Excommunicated) Cast out of a coven or the vampiric community as a whole. (See also "Invisibles", "Sin nomine".)
- The enforced separation of a Christian from her or his denomination, done for the good of the individual and the faith group, with the intent of changing the individual's behavior so that they can be welcomed back. ...
