1. : an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church membership. 2. : exclusion from fellowship in a group or community.
Apr 21, 2024
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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, in particular those of being in communion with other members of the... Wikipedia
Excommunication is an act of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, the rules of which it follows. Hence the general principle: whoever has jurisdiction in the forum ...
The noun excommunication is a formal way of describing what happens when someone gets kicked out of his or her church, for good.