excommunicate
verb (used with object)
to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.
is excommunicating
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present progressiveof excommunicate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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In the next the same Pope is excommunicating the King of England in the year 1537; with the proper inscription.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Vasari, Giorgio
