excommunicate
Bar from communion
To excommunicate is to formally expel someone from membership in a religious community, barring them from sacraments and fellowship.
The term is most associated with the Catholic Church, where excommunication is the severest penalty: The pope excommunicated the king.
Extended use covers any formal banishment from a group: He was excommunicated from the family after the scandal.
Intensely detested thing
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- interdictAuthoritative prohibition order
- schismFormal organizational fracture
blasphemy · papal · canon · doctrine · inquisition · dogma · sacrament · decree
Remove forcibly from membership
- exileBanishment from homeland
- oustRemove from position
- banOfficial restriction on something
- proscribeOfficially forbid something
eject · purge · remove · cast out · denounce · condemn · disbar · debar
Rejected, shunned person
- hereticChallenger of official doctrine
- apostateOne who renounces faith
- leperOne shunned for illness
- untouchableExempt from criticism or harm
infidel · dissident · exile · castaway · persona non grata · reject · anathematized · condemned
anathema
Intensely detested thing
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- interdictAuthoritative prohibition order
schism · blasphemy · papal · canon · doctrine · inquisition · dogma · sacrament · decree · tribunal
expel
Remove forcibly from membership
proscribe · eject · purge · remove · cast out · denounce · condemn · disbar · debar · blacklist
pariah
Rejected, shunned person
untouchable · infidel · dissident · exile · castaway · persona non grata · reject · anathematized · condemned · blackballed
alienate
Cause emotional distance
snub · cold-shoulder · disown · marginalize · ignore · avoid · boycott · sideline · rebuff · forsake
- exclusionsexclude, exclusion, excluding, except, exception
- heresyheretic, heretical, heretics, apostasy, apostate
- sectarianismsectarianism, sectarian, sect, schism, schismatic
- legal statusesmarried, single, divorced, citizen, widowed
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
- sinnerssinner, transgressor, evildoer, wrongdoer, blasphemer
excommunicatereadmit
Allow reentry after exclusion
reinstate · absolve · reconcile · baptize · welcome back
excommunicatecommune
Shared-living community
communicate · fellowship · unite · connect · embrace
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