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excommunication

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Middle English excommunicacion ← Late Latin excommūnicātiō

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Late Latin · derived fromexcommūnicātiō
Middle English · inherited fromexcommunicacion
English todayexcommunication

From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.

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