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What does excommunication mean?

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Noun
  1. 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.
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The excommunication that the Beth Din is now free to implement contains, among others, these restrictions.
Each cardinal will be required to take solemn oaths not to disclose any of their discussions on the pain of excommunication from the Church.
Its excommunication banished the unfaithful and unbelieving to the horror of outer darkness forever.
The Church reciprocated by forbidding membership in the Masons under pain of excommunication.
No canonical or civil penalties, much less automatic excommunication, are attached to its violation.
Midlife, he was unchurched, and his excommunication placed him in a state of dejection.

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