Noun
The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWith a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I was walking peacefully along my path when suddenly I was assailed by an angry bull of excommunication. David Lloyd George
Adams writes, "Nowhere in the Bible is excommunication (removal from the fellowship of the Lord's Table, according to Adams) equated with what happens in step 5; rather, step 5 is called "removing from the midst, handing over to Satan," and the like." Source: Internet
A new conflict was inevitable from the very fact that Henry considered the sentence of deposition repealed along with that of excommunication. Source: Internet
A series of defining documents were written and replaced over a period of 30 years as the doctrinal and political situation changed from the excommunication of Henry VIII in 1533, to the excommunication of Elizabeth I in 1570. Source: Internet
An argument with Pope Innocent III led to John's excommunication in 1209, a dispute finally settled by the king in 1213. Source: Internet