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

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