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Definition of Excommunication

1. Noun. The state of being excommunicated.

2. 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.

Definition of 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.

Definition of Excommunication

1. 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. ¹

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Definition of Excommunication

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Excommunication

excogitating excogitation excogitations excogitative excogitator excommune excommuned excommunes excommunicable excommunicant

excommunicants excommunicate excommunicated excommunicates excommunicating excommunication (current term) excommunications excommunicative excommunicator excommunicators

excommuning excommunion exconjugant excoriable excoriate excoriated excoriates excoriating excoriatingly excoriation

Literary usage of Excommunication

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Inadvertence, however, is not presumed; while it may affect moral responsibility and excommunication in foro externo, it is no obstacle to juridical guilt. ..."

2. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by Ecole littéraire de Montréal, Charles Gill, William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"There remains only the point of excommunication. They have found that there is that point of excommunication, but the ubi is a theological dispute which ..."

3. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"Thus excommunication, which in principle was a censure intended to warn the sinner ¡ind ... Afterward different degrees of excommunication were introduced, ..."

4. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"If the excommunication be without ... An excommunication under the btdl of thi Pcbe, (hall not " be rece¡ved in ... pj excommunication certified under the ..."

5. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1883)
"The excommunication of a sovereign was regarded аз freeing subjects from their allegiance ; and, in the year 1102, this sentence was pronounced against the ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"He differentiates decisively between excommunication and anathema. ... For excommunication differs from anathema: anathema which ought to be very rarely, ..."

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