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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.
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Noun1.excommunicationexcommunication - 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
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With more kisses, and hugs, and tears, than many young gentlemen who start upon their travels, and leave well-stocked homes behind them, would deem within the bounds of probability (if matter so low could be herein set down), Kit left the house at an early hour next morning, and set out to walk to Finchley; feeling a sufficient pride in his appearance to have warranted his excommunication from Little Bethel from that time forth, if he had ever been one of that mournful congregation.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
As I did not care, however, to get to Highgate before one or two o'clock in the day, and as we had another little excommunication case in court that morning, which was called The office of the judge promoted by Tipkins against Bullock for his soul's correction, I passed an hour or two in attendance on it with Mr.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
For this atrocity the Abbot menaced him with excommunication, and made out a dreadful list of complaints in the bowels and stomach, suffered by himself and his monks, in consequence of the tyrannical and unjust imprisonment they had sustained.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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