excommunication
pronunciation
How to pronounce excommunication in British English:
UK [ˌekskəˌmju:nɪ'keɪʃn]
How to pronounce excommunication in American English:
US [ˌɛkskəˌmjunɪˈkeʃən]
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- Noun:
- the state of being excommunicated
- the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church; cutting a person off from a religious society
Word Origin
- excommunication (n.)
- mid-15c., from Late Latin excommunicationem (nominative excommunicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of excommunicare "put out of the community," in Church Latin "to expel from communion," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + communicare, from communis "common" (see common).
Example
- 1. If anyone acts otherwise , he incurs automatic excommunication .
- 2. The church had various levels or degrees of such discipline , ranging from the mild rebuke to the ultimate step of excommunication .
- 3. Henry decided to purge his excommunication and get the interdict on his territories withdrawn by apologizing and doing penance .
- 4. He insisted that discipline within the church be maintained by excommunication .
- 5. An excommunication or condemnation by church officials .