debarrancen.
/dɪˈbɑːrəns/ rare.
The action of debarring; spec. the formal debarring of unworthy communicants from the Lord's Table by the ‘fencing of the table’ in Presbyterian churches: see debarration n.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > exclusion from communion > [noun]
recusancy1563
non-communion1643
debarrance1861
debarration1882
1861 J. Macfarlane Life G. Lawson ii. (1862) 81 It is doubtful if these ‘debarrances’ (another name for this peculiar service) ever kept away one who had determined to communicate.
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n.1861