Usually means: Formal exclusion from religious community.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (excommunication)

▸ noun:  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.

Similar:
exclusion, censure, ex-communication, excommunion, disfellowshipment, expulsion, exposition, dispossession, deportation, excretion, more...

Opposite:
communion, fellowship

Phrases:
excommunication by inch of candle, more...

Adjectives:
papal, greater, major, formal, social, unjust, second, lesser, automatic, solemn, general

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Similar:
exclusion, censure, ex-communication, excommunion, disfellowshipment, expulsion, exposition, dispossession, deportation, excretion, more...

Opposite:
communion, fellowship

Phrases:
excommunication by inch of candle, more...

Adjectives:
papal, greater, major, formal, social, unjust, second, lesser, automatic, solemn, general

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark purple,     deep red,     maroon, more...



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