Associations to the word «Excommunication»

Wiktionary

EXCOMMUNICATION, noun. 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.

Dictionary definition

EXCOMMUNICATION, noun. The state of being excommunicated.
EXCOMMUNICATION, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats