as in condemnation
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Recent Examples of excommunication
The penalty for violating this pledge is the church’s most severe punishment: excommunication, or being permanently separated from the life of the church.
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Made By History, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
Faced with excommunication by the Catholic Church, Zaragoza rode his Vespa nine hours to Madrid for an audience with Spanish general Francisco Franco.
—Joshua Korber Hoffman, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
The threat of excommunication did nothing to change their minds.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2013
Thus, for the people of the Andes to be without coca is a form of social and spiritual death, an excommunication from existence itself.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
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Made By History, Time, 22 Apr. 2025
Faced with excommunication by the Catholic Church, Zaragoza rode his Vespa nine hours to Madrid for an audience with Spanish general Francisco Franco.
—Joshua Korber Hoffman, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
The threat of excommunication did nothing to change their minds.
—Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2013
Thus, for the people of the Andes to be without coca is a form of social and spiritual death, an excommunication from existence itself.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excommunication
Noun
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Politicians across New York offered similar condemnations.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
14 June 2025
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Condolences to Iran, condemnations of Israel Hezbollah and its leader, Naim Kassem, have condemned Israel’s attacks and offered condolences for the senior Iranian officers who were killed.—
Abby Sewell,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2025
Noun
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While the censure resolution easily passed the House, only 22 Democrats voted in favor of it.—
Michael Graham,
Boston Herald,
6 June 2025
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Stupar declined to comment on the censure, referring any questions to Lynch, who is president of the board.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 May 2025
Noun
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Virginia Democratic candidates were also unequivocal in their denunciations of Jenkins, the former sheriff of Culpeper County.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
27 May 2025
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His advocacy for care of migrants and the poor, his tolerance for homosexuality, and his denunciation of climate change and conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine helped reset the world’s moral compass.—
Aryn Baker,
Time,
6 May 2025
Noun
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However benign or malicious — whatever its life or death, possible eternal salvation or never-ending damnation — this spirit seizes your attention from the get-go because everything in this twisty, technically virtuosic, surprisingly moving chiller is shot from its point of view.—
Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Earth’s ‘Gateway to Hell’ is growing There are many natural landmarks on our planet named after a biblical destination of eternal damnation.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
25 Dec. 2024
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“Excommunication.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excommunication. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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