excommunication

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.

• disfellowshipment

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Borrowed from the Late Latin excommūnicātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.skɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/

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excommunication f (plural excommunications)

1. excommunication

• “excommunication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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