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excommunication
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ex·com·mu·ni·ca·tion  (ksk-myn-kshn)
n.
1. The act of excommunicating.
2. The state of being excommunicated.
3. A formal ecclesiastical censure that deprives a person of the right to belong to a church.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.excommunication - the state of being excommunicatedexcommunication - the state of being excommunicated    
censure, exclusion
rejection - the state of being rejected
2.excommunication - 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
excision
banishment, proscription - rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone
Translations
excommunication [ˈekskəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən] N → excomunión f
excommunication [ˌɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən] n [member of church] → excommunication f
excommunication
n → Exkommunikation f
excommunication [ˈɛkskəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃ/ən] n → scomunica
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Tolstoy descendant wants excomunication reconsidered The great-great-grandson of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy has asked the Russian Orthodox church to reconsider its century-old ruling that excommunicated the famous author of such classics as War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
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