excommunicative
excommunicative (adjective): Relating to or having the nature of excommunication, particularly the formal act of excluding someone from membership in a religious community, especially in the Christian Church.
- (A formal statement that excludes a group from the church.)
- (A manner or attitude expressing rejection or exclusion from a religious community.)
"excommunicative language": Words or speech that imply or enact a formal rejection.
- The priest's excommunicative language left no room for reconciliation. (The priest's words formally excluded someone from the church.)
"excommunicative act": A formal action that results in excommunication.
- The council's excommunicative act was met with widespread protest. (The council's decision to excommunicate someone was controversial.)
Excommunicate (verb): To officially exclude someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
- The church decided to excommunicate the rebellious leader. (To formally expel from church membership.)
Excommunication (noun): The act or state of being excommunicated.
- Excommunication was a severe punishment in medieval times. (The formal exclusion from church membership.)
Excommunicatory (adjective): A less common variant of "excommunicative", meaning serving to excommunicate.
- The excommunicatory document was read aloud in the cathedral. (A document that enacts excommunication.)
- Censuring: Expressing severe disapproval, often in an official capacity.
- Anathema: A formal curse or condemnation by ecclesiastical authority.
- Banning: Officially prohibiting or excluding someone from a group.
To cast out: To forcibly exclude or reject someone, often from a community.
- The church cast out the dissenter, an excommunicative action. (The church formally expelled the dissenter.)
To cut off: To sever all ties or communication, especially in a religious sense.
- Being excommunicative meant he was cut off from the sacraments. (He was completely separated from church rituals.)