excommunication
Pronunciation: /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
The English word “excommunication” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping 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.
Etymology
From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.
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More English words
- excommunicable
- excommunicant
- excommunicate
- excommunicatee
- excommunicative
- excommunicator
- excommunicatory
- excommunion
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