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excommunication

ex.com.mu.ni.ca.tion \-.myu:-n*-'ka--sh*n\ \-'myu:-n*-.ka-t-iv, -ni-k*t-\ n 
   1: an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church mem 
   bership 2: exclusion from fellowship in a group or community  - 
   ex.com.mu.ni.ca.tive aj