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excommunicate

verb as in banish

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Example Sentences

Even after she left its barbed bosom, it did its best to further excommunicate and sideline her.

Jewish and world leaders privately asked him to excommunicate Hitler, but he declined to do so.

And rather than fight with them, they'll just excommunicate and ignore him, which half of them have already done anyway, probably.

But he gave to the clergy the exclusive right to excommunicate, and to regulate the administration of the sacraments.

He could depose prelates and excommunicate the greatest personages; he enjoyed enormous revenues; he was vicegerent of the Pope.

The Pope allowed him to excommunicate the persons who occupied his estates, but not the King himself.

This mans wedding-business was so extensive and so scandalous, that the Bishop of London found it necessary to excommunicate him.

Yonder holy man of a bishop, who sleeps not far from you, gorged with wine and meat, might excommunicate you if he heard you!

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to excommunicate, such as: anathematize, ban, curse, denounce, dismiss, and eject.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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