"Excommunication" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A sentence of censure prouounced by one of the spiritual courts for offenses falling under ecclesiastical cognizance. It is described in the books
The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., 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.
... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run away... and throw me my mask!... Nor any other woman... ever, ever!... Ah, you can understand, my happiness was so great, I cried. And fell at her feet, crying... and I kissed her feet... her little feet... crying. You're crying, too, daroga... and she cried also... the angel cried!...
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In ecclesiastical law. A spiritual punishment, consisting in withdraw-ing from a baptized person (whether be-longing to the clergy or the …
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