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Excommunicate vs Exile - What's the difference?

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Excommunicate is a related term of exile.


As adjectives the difference between excommunicate and exile

is that excommunicate is excommunicated while exile is exiled, in exile.

As nouns the difference between excommunicate and exile

is that excommunicate is a person so excluded while exile is exile (someone in exile).

As verbs the difference between excommunicate and exile

is that excommunicate is to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community while exile is .

excommunicate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Excommunicated.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John IX:
  • the iewes had conspyred allredy that yff eny man did confesse that he was Christ, he shulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person so excluded.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
  • * , chapter=17
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated . It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.}}
  • To exclude from any other group; to banish.
  • Synonyms

    * takfir

    exile

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia exile) (en noun)
  • The state of being banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let them be recalled from their exile .
  • Someone who is banished from one's home or country.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou art an exile , and thou must not stay.

    Synonyms

    * (the state) banishment * (the person) expatriate, expat

    Derived terms

    * internal exile

    Verb

    (exil)
  • To send into exile.
  • * Tennyson
  • Exiled from eternal God.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Calling home our exiled friends abroad.

    Synonyms

    * banish

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