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excommunication

/,ɛkskə,mjunə'keɪʃən/

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noun
the state of being excommunicated
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censure exclusion

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rejection
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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
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excision

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banishment proscription

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anathema a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
henry viii son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547)