Associations to the word «Excommunicate»

Wiktionary

EXCOMMUNICATE, adjective. Excommunicated.
EXCOMMUNICATE, noun. A person so excluded.
EXCOMMUNICATE, verb. (transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
EXCOMMUNICATE, verb. (transitive) To exclude from any other group; to banish.

Dictionary definition

EXCOMMUNICATE, verb. Exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner".
EXCOMMUNICATE, verb. Oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King