excommunicative
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of excommunicative
First recorded in 1815–25; excommunicate + -ive
Example Sentences
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He was one of the many men who admired Mrs. Errington while wondering at her narrow and excommunicative disposition.
From Project Gutenberg
This is that Henry IV., whose scene at Canossa with the Pope—Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire waiting three days in the snow to kiss the foot of excommunicative Gregory—has imprest itself on all memories.
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It was in the time while Thomas a Becket was roving about the world, coming home excommunicative, and finally getting killed in Canterbury Cathedral;—while Abbot Samson, still a poor little brown Boy, came over from Norfolk, holding by his mother's hand, to St. Edmundsbury; having seen "SANTANAS s with outspread wings" fearfully busy in this world.
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