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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley