excommunication
nounUK /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
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.
- Synonyms
- disfellowshipment
- Derived terms
- counterexcommunication