The act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, excommunication, the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society.
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