excommunication

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

Noun

excommunication

1. 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.

Synonyms

• disfellowshipment

Translations

• French: excommunication
• German: Exkommunikation
• Italian: scomunica
• Portuguese: excomunhão
• Russian: отлуче́ние
• Spanish: excomunión, descomunión

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