excommunicated
Cast from congregation
Excommunicated describes someone who has been formally expelled from membership in a religious community, most commonly the Roman Catholic Church.
The punishment bars the person from participating in sacraments and other rites of the faith.
Henry VIII was excommunicated after breaking with Rome.
The term extends figuratively to anyone cast out of a group or organization: After the scandal, he was effectively excommunicated from Hollywood.
The root communicate originally meant to share in common, so excommunication literally means being cut off from shared participation.
Officially removed or banished
- exiledForced from one's country
- banishedForced to leave permanently
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
outcast · disfellowshipped · proscribed · blackballed · debarred · cast out · pariah · persona non grata
Intensely detested thing
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- churchPlace of Christian worship
- papalof the pontiff
canon law · interdict · heretic · blasphemy · schism · doctrine · ecclesiastical · sacrament
Complete separation from others
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- separationState of being apart
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
disconnected · solitude · loneliness · rift · detachment · disaffiliation · cut off · severed
Approval or punitive measure
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- penaltyPunishment for wrongdoing
sentence · rebuke · reprimand · chastisement · discipline · verdict · retribution · admonition
Loss of honor
- dishonorLoss of respect
- stigmaMark of dishonor
- infamyExtreme public disgrace
- scandalDisgraceful public affair
humiliation · disrepute · ignominy · discredit · condemnation · reproach · disapproval · taint
expelled
Officially removed or banished
- exiledForced from one's country
- banishedForced to leave permanently
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
shunned · outcast · disfellowshipped · proscribed · blackballed · debarred · cast out · pariah · persona non grata · rejected
anathema
Intensely detested thing
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- apostasyRenunciation of former beliefs
- churchPlace of Christian worship
papal · canon law · interdict · heretic · blasphemy · schism · doctrine · ecclesiastical · sacrament · clergy
isolation
Complete separation from others
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- separationState of being apart
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
abandonment · disconnected · solitude · loneliness · rift · detachment · disaffiliation · cut off · severed · forsaken
sanction
Approval or punitive measure
- condemnationSevere disapproval expressed formally
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
penalty · sentence · rebuke · reprimand · chastisement · discipline · verdict · retribution · admonition · castigation
disgrace
Loss of honor
scandal · humiliation · disrepute · ignominy · discredit · condemnation · reproach · disapproval · taint · fallen
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- outsidersoutcast, outsider, outcasts, pariah, misfit
- oustedfired, axed, sacked, canned, terminated
- faith labelsbeliever, nonbeliever, atheist, agnostic, theist
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
- ex-believersapostate, ex-believer, former believer, lapsed, deconvert
excommunicatedconfirmed
Established as accurate
baptized · in good standing · absolved · reinstated · ordained
excommunicatedblessed
Receiving divine favor
sanctified · anointed · consecrated · redeemed · saved
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