excommunicate
verb (used with object)
to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.
excommunicating
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present participleof excommunicate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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AI isn’t going anywhere: It’s already an essential tool for the modern economy, and excommunicating it from the classroom would leave graduates unprepared for the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 2025
The Vatican has been considering developing a doctrine about excommunicating Catholic mobsters.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2021
Another commenter added, “Why are they excommunicating you over a 1-year-olds attendance? That baby will never remember your wedding day and likely would never care that he wasn’t invited.”
From Fox News ● May 15, 2019
In 1988, Pope John Paul II took the dramatic step of excommunicating a renegade religious society led by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, which had rejected Vatican reforms.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2018
To a demand for the resignation of his temporal power he replied by a bull, dated June tenth, 1809, excommunicating the invaders of his states; thereupon he was seized and sent a prisoner to Grenoble.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
