excommunication
noun
ex·com·mu·ni·ca·tion
ˌek-skə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈkā-shən 
1
: an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church membership
2
: exclusion from fellowship in a group or community
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The automatic consequence for a confessor who breaks the seal of confession is excommunication – that is, banned, at least temporarily, from the sacraments of the church.
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Timothy Gabrielli, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
The second trip was in 2000, when the society was still relatively small, as a gesture of fidelity to Rome despite then-standing excommunications against their bishops.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2025
Kincaid had already begun cultivating an array of overlapping, perennial obsessions: matriarchal power and mothers (specifically her own), banishment and excommunication from family structures, the British empire, colonial literary education, Antigua, and travel.
—Book Marks
august 7, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
The panel also said that a juror might find that the father’s confession before the panel, considering his excommunication also wasn’t privileged.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2025
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Timothy Gabrielli, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
The second trip was in 2000, when the society was still relatively small, as a gesture of fidelity to Rome despite then-standing excommunications against their bishops.
—Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 14 Aug. 2025
Kincaid had already begun cultivating an array of overlapping, perennial obsessions: matriarchal power and mothers (specifically her own), banishment and excommunication from family structures, the British empire, colonial literary education, Antigua, and travel.
—Book Marks
august 7, Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
The panel also said that a juror might find that the father’s confession before the panel, considering his excommunication also wasn’t privileged.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for excommunication
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“Excommunication.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/excommunication. Accessed 6 Sep. 2025.
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