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Categories: Punishments in religion, Disengagement from religion, Apostasy, All articles with vague or ambiguous time, Articles incorporating text from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference
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excommunication  excision  disfellowship  disfellowshiped  disfellowshipped
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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 WordNet 3.0
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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 WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Excommunication is an institutional act of religious censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the congregation, and of receiving the sacraments. Wikipedia
Censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community Wikidata
The ecclesiastical sentence by which a person is excommunicated. OmegaWiki
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. Wiktionary
Act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting. Wiktionary (translation)