discommunionn.
/ˌdɪskəˈmjuːnɪən/, U.S. /ˌdɪskəˈmjunjən/ Now rare.
Exclusion from communion or fellowship, esp. within the Roman Catholic Church; (also) = excommunication n. 1a. Also: an instance of this.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun]
discommunion1590
ostracism1602
disfellowship1608
expurgation1615
elimination1623
estrangement1660
social exclusion1831
fugitation1837
leperhood1875
ostracization1875
boycott1880
boycotting1880
boycottism1880
freeze-out1883
freezing out1891
purge1893
1590 T. Sperin in H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Certain Lett. & Conf. ii. 20 The Bishop his excommunication is but a Ciuile discommunion.
1630 E. Cary tr. J. D. Du Perron Reply to Answeare of King iv. xv. 418 This conditionall desire of communicating with her [sc. the Catholic Church]..cannot be called communion in vowe, but discommunion.
1660 J. Gauden Mem. Bp. Brounrigg 163 Dough-baked Protestants, that are afraid to own their discommunion and distance from the Church politick, or Court of Rome.
1719 G. Rye Treat. against Nonconforming Nonjurors II. iv. 469 The highest degree of Discommunion was to excommunicate Men.
1851 Morning Chron. 1 May 4/2 The reformation of one portion of the whole Church—involving discommunion with other portions.
1909 H. E. Sampson Progressive Redempt. i. ii. 51 The loss is due to its isolated state through discommunion from the other parts of the organic Body of Christ, or the Catholic Church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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