excommunicate

Example Sentences

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So, the court's guidelines will also help decide whether women can be denied entry into Parsi temples and Muslim mosques, whether religious leaders can excommunicate people and the legality of female genital mutilation.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

“They just said, ‘Hey, let’s excommunicate her father.’

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2022

“They can’t excommunicate me because I am not going anywhere,” she says.

From New York Times • May 22, 2020

In 1784, Methodists made plans to excommunicate all members who had not freed their slaves within the next two years.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Such a pair were once sent with bulls to excommunicate Barnabas Visconti, but Barnabas only made them eat their bulls—parchment, ribbons, leaden seals and all.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White