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excommunication

/ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English

Syllables
ex-com-mu-ni-ca-tion
IPA
/ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially 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.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English excommunicacion, from Late Latin excommūnicātiō. By surface analysis, excommunicate + -ion. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: excommunicacion, excommūnicātiō

Regional Pronunciation

  • British English: /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/

Usage

Inflected Forms

excommunications (plural)

Derived Forms

counterexcommunication

Synonyms

excommunion disfellowshipment excision exclusion censure

Rhymes With

information education situation population station association administration operation organization nation location application

Questions

How do you pronounce excommunication?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/.
What does excommunication mean?
The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially 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.
Where does excommunication come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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