excommunication

Meaning

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

anathema

banishment

expulsion

ban

excision

exclusion

ostracism

censure

fix

fuck

👉👌

hump

lay

lodge

put

repose

screw

separation

set

stick

wedge

eff

externment

aphorism

bang

boycott

brew

deposit

difference

expelling

Translations

scomunica

excommunication

excomunión

Exkommunikation

excommunicatie

anathema

excomunhão

Bann

anatema

ban

αφορισμός

anathème

excommunicatio

anathema

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.