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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Synonyms for Excommunication
Shunning and excommunication are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shunning" instead a noun "Excommunication".
Nearby Words: excommunicate, excommunicated, excommunicating
Shunning
Shunning noun - The act or a means of getting or keeping away from something undesirable.
Excommunication and shunning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Excommunication" instead a noun "Shunning".
Nearby Word: shunned
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- isolation and excommunication
- isolation and shunning
- exclusion and excommunication
- exclusion and shunning
- ban and excommunication
- ban and shunning
- boycott and excommunication
- boycott and shunning
- avoidance and excommunication
- avoidance and shunning
- rejection and excommunication
- rejection and shunning
- expulsion and excommunication
- expulsion and shunning
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The origin names are terms in Hinduism that refer to states of consciousness which are either a negation or release from normal existence; and the common names are Hebrew and Arabic words referring to shunning/excommunication, the land of the dead, and hell respectively.
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