as in to banish
to not allow (someone) to continue being a member of a group and especially the Roman Catholic church
He was excommunicated from the church for his radical practices.
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Recent Examples of excommunicate
One American Archbishop and other Catholic Church figures warned priests will be excommunicated for obiding by Washington state's new law set to take effect on July 27.
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Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Naturally, the archbishop had no choice but to excommunicate her.
—ArsTechnica, 6 June 2025
Prosecutors said during the trial that Pankey had been excommunicated after the incident, which also cost him his job there as a janitor.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 24 May 2025
Church to excommunicate priests who follow controversial new law.
—FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025
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Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Naturally, the archbishop had no choice but to excommunicate her.
—ArsTechnica, 6 June 2025
Prosecutors said during the trial that Pankey had been excommunicated after the incident, which also cost him his job there as a janitor.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 24 May 2025
Church to excommunicate priests who follow controversial new law.
—FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excommunicate
Verb
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The man in the suit, banished from Faik Ağa, had taken up a spot at Irfan’s café.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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When evil forces threaten their magical land of Coventry, the sisters have to band together to banish them.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Dharamshala is best known internationally as the seat of the Dalai Lama, who has been based there since being exiled from Tibet in 1959.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
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As details of Prince Andrew's past correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein continue to surface, royal experts claim King Charles III is facing mounting pressure from family members to exile his brother as fear of the monarchy's demise lingers.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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The opening result excluding previews is in line with Captain Underpants, and above Sonic 3 and Paw Patrol.—
Nancy Tartaglione,
Deadline,
19 Oct. 2025
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After crunching the numbers to exclude armies of data-scraping AI bots, the Wikimedia Foundation says that between March and August this year, the number of Wikipedia page views coming from real humans declined by 8% year-on-year.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
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There’s a wonderful chapter in which an older woman extolls a younger one to tell a painful story not with words, but with movements, so as to expel her pain without enlisting narrative’s power to summon, and thus force a re-living, of painful events.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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In at least three Sahel states — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — military juntas that came to power in coups, notably Niger and Mali, have expelled Western military forces.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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By focusing so much on the Jewish people and the Jewish state, these provocateurs have a much broader goal in mind than merely ostracizing America's small Jewish minority.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Hamas watched in recent months as Israel has become increasingly ostracized.—
Ruth Margalit,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
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Matthew Hubble, 37, of Brookland, Arkansas, was out on a boat with friends when he was ejected.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
20 Oct. 2025
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In Mali, French forces were ejected in 2022 after battling Islamist terror groups for nine years.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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Venables was dismissed early in the next campaign following three straight defeats, but Lineker went on to net another 20 times that season, helping win the Copa del Rey under Luis Aragones.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Court rules don't allow plaintiffs to submit additional evidence to counter a motion to dismiss, Alex said.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Excommunicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excommunicate. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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