disfellowship
nounEtymology From dis- + fellowship.
1
Lack of, or exclusion from, fellowship.
- Related terms
- unfellowship
disfellowship
verbEtymology From dis- + fellowship.
1
To subject to disfellowshipment.
- Disfellowshipped persons, shunned by the organisation for their unrepented sins, slipped in at the last and sat by the door, ready to disappear at the end of the closing prayer.2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 62:
- Synonyms
- excommunicate