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Meanings of excommunication in anglès
Censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community.
Related terms
portuguès
excomunhão català
excomunió català
excomunicació 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.
Principal and severest censure and most serious penalty that the Catholic Church can inflict on an individual.
Usage of excommunication in anglès
1
I ask for his immediate excommunication for the space of a year.
2
Mr Porter said he had never received formal notice of his excommunication.
3
Aldikacti had received a sentence of excommunication and execution for simple incompetence.
4
For excommunication deprives a man chiefly of a share in the sacraments.
5
No sooner was the excommunication known, than the effects of it appeared.
6
Why were you so quick to vote for the excommunication of Frejeris?
7
For the individual, excommunication was a more dreaded penalty than the interdict.
8
But he avoided issuing any sentence of excommunication against Henry in person.
9
The principal one of these has already been mentioned incidentally, viz., excommunication.
10
They now well deserve excommunication, and the destruction of all their property.
11
He threatened the King with excommunication, and of course that frightened him.
12
Yet precautions were taken to keep secret the excommunication which Pius VII.
13
For this saying the pope launched against him a more tremendous excommunication.
14
The Pope was not to be trifled with, and pronounced his excommunication.
15
Therefore it seems that excommunication is not a fitting punishment for schismatics.
16
He has placed your city of Coimbra under a ban of excommunication.
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Translations for excommunication
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Excommunication across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common