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Excommunication vs Excommunicate - What's the difference?

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Excommunication is a related term of excommunicate.


As nouns the difference between excommunication and excommunicate

is that excommunication is the act of excommunicating]] or [[eject|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 while excommunicate is a person so excluded.

As an adjective excommunicate is

excommunicated.

As a verb excommunicate is

to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.

excommunication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of excommunicating]] or [[eject, 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.
  • 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