What is another word for Excommunicating?

Pronunciation: [ɛkskəmjˈuːnɪkˌe͡ɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

Excommunicating refers to the act of cutting off or expelling someone from a religious community or organization. Synonyms for the term include ostracizing, shunning, banishing, disfellowshipping, and exiling. Ostracizing involves excluding someone from a group or society, while shunning implies rejecting or avoiding someone. Banishing and exiling refer to expelling someone from a place or community. Disfellowshipping, on the other hand, involves expelling a member from a religious community for violating its rules or beliefs. These synonyms all express the idea of breaking social ties and removing someone from a community for their actions or beliefs.

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Usage examples for Excommunicating

Secondly, to repeal or contract the late Act of Toleration is not the way for this so much wished-for happiness; to have laws revived that should set one party a plundering, Excommunicating and unchurching another, that should renew the oppressions and devastations of late reigns, this will not by any means contribute to this Peace, which all good men desire.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
And so straightforward was the man's testimony, and so well-known was he in Jerusalem, that instead of denying the miracle, they adopted the easier course of Excommunicating him for acknowledging Jesus as the Christ.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
Rinuccini, after a considerable delay in Paris, whence he wrote many letters to Rome expressing his views with great frankness upon the Queen of England and her advisers, pushed on to Ireland, where, far from making peace with Ormonde or with any one else, he set everybody by the ears-not a difficult task, it is true, in that island-and ended by Excommunicating most of the Confederate Catholics themselves.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes

Related words: excommunication, excommunicate, excommunicate from church, ave excommunicate

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