excommunication

1. 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. Source: opted

2. n. the state of being excommunicated Source: wordnet

3. n. 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 Source: wordnet

4. 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. Note: excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful. Source: webster

5. The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiasticalcensure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for thetime, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion fromfellowship in things spiritual. Source: adambom

6. n:100 n. the state of being excommunicated n. 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 Source: ecdict

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