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1. (n.) excommunication
the act of excommunicating.
2. excommunication
the state of being excommunicated.
3. excommunication
the sentence by which a person is excommunicated.
Etymology: (1425–75; < LL)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) excommunication, exclusion, censure
the state of being excommunicated
2. (noun) excommunication, excision
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
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) excommunication
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
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. excommunication
an ecclesiastical punishment inflicted upon heretics and offenders against the Church laws and violators of the moral code; was formulated in the Christian Church in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It varied in severity according to the degree of transgression, but in its severest application involved exclusion from the Eucharist, Christian burial, and the rights and privileges of the Church; formerly it had the support of the civil authority, but is now a purely spiritual penalty.
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