| 单词 | excommunication |
| 释义 | excommunication (once / 3022 pages) n The noun excommunication is a formal way of describing what happens when someone gets kicked out of his or her church, for good. Excommunication is really a kind of banishment, a punishment that's handed out by a church when one of its members breaks some important church rule. The Latin root is excommunicare, meaning "put out of the community," which is just what happens when a person is excommunicated. The term is used most often in churches whose traditions include the concept of communion, as another Latin meaning of excommunication is "to expel from communion." WORD FAMILYexcommunication: excommunications+/excommunicate: excommunicated, excommunicates, excommunicating, excommunication USAGE EXAMPLES“Your friends were your brothers, and anything but total loyalty at all costs meant excommunication. As you get older, that model becomes unrealistic.” New York Times(Jul 13, 2012) Previously only bishops or special confessors could hear confessions for abortions and lift excommunication. BBC(Nov 21, 2016) Under canon law, abortion brings automatic excommunication unless the person receiving or performing it confesses and receives absolution. New York Times(Nov 21, 2016) 1n the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society Syn|Hyper excision banishment, proscription rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone 2n the state of being excommunicated Syn|Hyper censure, exclusion rejection the state of being rejected |
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