Excommunication
Excommunication noun - 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.
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Seal and excommunication are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Seal" instead a noun "Excommunication".
Nearby Words: excommunicate, excommunicated, excommunicating
Seal
Seal noun - Fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters.
Excommunication and seal are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Excommunication" with "Seal", this nouns are similar.
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Breaking the seal of confession is an offense that incurs an automatic excommunication for the priest.
Source: Confessional - A priest violating the seal would risk laicization (defrocking) and excommunication (which means that he could not receive any sacrament until he would (ironically) confess his violation of the seal).
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