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Vinony

excommunication

noun

  1. censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

noun

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

  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.