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PRONUNCIATION OF EXCOMMUNICATION

excommunication  [ˌekskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXCOMMUNICATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Excommunication is a noun.
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WHAT DOES EXCOMMUNICATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

excommunication

Excommunication

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, such as the reception to Holy Communion. Some Protestants use the term disfellowship instead. The word excommunication means putting a specific individual or group out of communion. In some religions, excommunication includes spiritual condemnation of the member or group. Excommunication may involve banishment, shunning, and shaming, depending on the religion, the offense that caused excommunication, or the rules or norms of the religious community. The grave act is often remedied by sincere penance, public recantation, sometimes through the Sacrament of Confession, piety, and/or through mortification of the flesh.

Definition of excommunication in the English dictionary

The definition of excommunication in the dictionary is the act of excommunicating someone.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXCOMMUNICATION


allocation
ˌæləˈkeɪʃən
application
ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən
authentication
ɔːˌθentɪˈkeɪʃən
certification
ˌsɜːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
classification
ˌklæsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
communication
kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən
dedication
ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən
education
ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃən
identification
aɪˌdɛntɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
indication
ˌɪndɪˈkeɪʃən
location
ləʊˈkeɪʃən
medication
ˌmɛdɪˈkeɪʃən
modification
ˌmɒdɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
notification
ˌnəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
publication
ˌpʌblɪˈkeɪʃən
qualification
ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
relocation
ˌriːləʊˈkeɪʃən
specification
ˌspɛsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən
vacation
vəˈkeɪʃən
verification
ˌvɛrɪfɪˈkeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXCOMMUNICATION

exclusivist
exclusivity
exclusory
excogitable
excogitate
excogitation
excogitative
excogitator
excommunicable
excommunicate
excommunicative
excommunicator
excommunicatory
excommunion
excoriate
excoriation
excorticate
excortication
excrecencies
excrement

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXCOMMUNICATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
association
citation
combination
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
evaluation
excitation
federation
formation
foundation
generation

Synonyms and antonyms of excommunication in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «excommunication» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EXCOMMUNICATION

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The translations of excommunication from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «excommunication» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

excomunión
570 millions of speakers

English

excommunication
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बहिष्कार
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطرد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отлучение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

excomunhão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

excommunication
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

excommunication
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengucilan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Exkommunikation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

破門
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

파문
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ekskomunikasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sa thải
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தேவாலயத்தின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बहिष्कार टाकणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aforoz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scomunica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ekskomunika
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відлучення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

excomunicare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αφορισμός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ekskommunikasie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bannlysning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ekskommunikasjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of excommunication

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXCOMMUNICATION»

The term «excommunication» is regularly used and occupies the 67.553 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EXCOMMUNICATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about excommunication

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXCOMMUNICATION»

Discover the use of excommunication in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to excommunication and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Excommunication and the Secular Arm in Medieval England: A ...
The excommunication used by the church was analogous to the imperial ban and to the outlawry of the common law.1 Radically, excommunication severed a person from the Christian community; it removed him from the communion of the  ...
F. Donald Logan, 1968
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Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and Mediation
is communicational imperative reaches its highest pitch in his satirical reformulation of Hegel—“the real is communicational, the communicational is real.”32 From philosophy we learn that excommunication is a question of language and ...
Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, McKenzie Wark, 2013
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Excommunication and the Catholic Church: Straight Answers to ...
In this intriguing book, canon and civil lawyer Edward N. Peters offers a compelling presentation of excommunication based on the current Code of Canon Law, answering some of the most commonly-asked questions about this most serious ...
Edward N. Peters, 2006
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Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective: Religious ...
Adultery, polytheism, Sabbath violations, ritual violations, and other central tenets of the faith, which were grounds for excommunication from the Christian community, were never subject to shunning by the Jewish tradition unless the person ...
John (jurista) Witte, Johan David Van der Vyver, Van der Vyver, J. D., 1996
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The Encyclopedia of Christianity
Excommunication as a papal weapon came into discredit when it was used excessively to try to safeguard the — > Papal States politically (e.g., against the Hohenstaufens and Aragonese in Sicily in the 13th and 14th centuries; — > Empire ...
Erwin Fahlbusch, Geoffrey William Bromiley, 2001
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Human Rights in Judaism: Cultural, Religious, and Political ...
Adultery, polytheism, Sabbath violations, ritual violations, and other central tenets of the faith, which were grounds for excommunication from the Christian community, were never subject to shunning by the Jewish tradition unless the person ...
Michael J. Broyde, John Witte, 1998
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The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of ...
KINDS OF EXCOMMUNICATION. — (1) Major and Minor. — Until recently excommunication was of two kinds, major and minor, (a) Minor excommunication is uniformly defined by canonists and by Gregory IX (cap. lix, De sent, exc., lib.
Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, 1913
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Essential Truths of the Christian Faith
EXCOMMUNICATION. To be excommunicated from the church of Christ is a dreadful thing. Yet there is only one sin so serious that it warrants dismissal from the body of Christ. That sin is the sin of impenitence. There are a multitude of sins  ...
R. C. Sproul, 1998
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Excommunication Excommunicated, Or, Legal Evidence, that the ...
In a Dialogue Between a Doctor of Both Laws, and a Substantial Burgher of Taunton-Dean. 6- Exmbmmw'mtian Excomm'm'icated : &c. Bur . Iam-sorr Ihave so far forfeited my credit with you, that ousu pect my in ormation; 'Tis but this morning ] ...
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Standing for Something More: The Excommunication of Lyndon ...
After a highly publicized and controversial exit from Mormonism, Lamborn intertwines the story of his awakening with psychological aspects of religious belief.
Lyndon Lamborn, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXCOMMUNICATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term excommunication is used in the context of the following news items.
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LETTERS: Readers sound off about the nation's moral decline …
Second, Bruno's excommunication and condemnation by the Catholic Church was not primarily for the “suggestion” Buchanan claims; it was ... «Waco Tribune-Herald, Jul 15»
2
Character of leadership on trial
And no one else in the Liberal Party would dare chide Abbott as Turnbull did, out of fear of immediate excommunication, even though there is ... «The West Australian, Jul 15»
3
Plea alleges victimisation, notice ordered
MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday ordered notice on a petition alleging excommunication of a family in ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
4
The Catholic Church vs. the IRA Hunger Strikers of 1923
The statement called on excommunication for IRA members who partook in the war against the Free State. This attitude of the church hardened ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
5
Ravindranath Tagore: His Concept of the Nation/State is not what …
Tagore feels that the constant fear of excommunication by the society among the members of each and every caste has crippled their ability to ... «Milli Gazette, Jul 15»
6
Beating the Islamic State Won't Fix Iraq
So-called takfiri organizations like these — in Arabic, the term literally means the act of excommunication — have proliferated throughout the ... «Foreign Policy, Jul 15»
7
Thursday, July 16
1054 - Pope Leo IX delivers an excommunication to the patriarch in Constantinople. The patriarch then excommunicates the pope, resulting in ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
8
Ordain Women Founder Kate Kelly
Honestly, because I have such a supportive family and because I moved half way around the world immediately after my excommunication, my ... «Salt Lake City Weekly, Jul 15»
9
Blemish-free bull reverts 'cursed' Kaimenyi to 'true son of the Ameru'
... on him by the elders for gross misconduct that led to his curse and excommunication. He was reinstated again at the Nchiru shrine yesterday. «The Standard Digital News, Jul 15»
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8 Things That Happened In History Way More Often Than Everybody …
The inevitable excommunication—of a town, of a province, of a country—sounds dire. History books illustrated the terror that excommunication ... «io9, Jul 15»

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