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excommunication

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From the Late Latin excommūnicātiō. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.

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excommunication (countable and uncountable, plural excommunications)

  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.
    Synonym: (obsolete) excommunion

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from the Late Latin excommūnicātiōnem.

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excommunication f (plural excommunications)

  1. excommunication

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excommunication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia