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- verb Present participle of
excommunicate .
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Examples
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Muslims had suffered a loss which was akin to excommunicating the Pope from the Catholic Church.
Yursil Kidwai: Blasphemy and 'Sharia' Laws: Legitimizing Corruption and Cognitive Dissonance in Muslim Lands Yursil Kidwai 2011
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And to sort of punish her, in a sense, a friend of the guy who was abused had manipulated the bishop into excommunicating Mother Mackillop.
Australia's New Saint Also Dealt With Sex Abuse Scandal 2010
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In 2006, he publicly reaffirmed the spiritual purpose of the requirement and made it clear that dissenters on the issue would not be tolerated, excommunicating an African bishop who had ordained several married men as priests.
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Muslims had suffered a loss which was akin to excommunicating the Pope from the Catholic Church.
Yursil Kidwai: Blasphemy and 'Sharia' Laws: Legitimizing Corruption and Cognitive Dissonance in Muslim Lands Yursil Kidwai 2011
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And to sort of punish her, in a sense, a friend of the guy who was abused had manipulated the bishop into excommunicating Mother MacKillop.
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The Vatican is in the process of defrocking and formally excommunicating Bourgeois for supporting and attending women's ordinations.
Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience Michele Somerville 2011
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If you mean things like twice excommunicating the heretic Marcion, yes, when people were preaching what the Christians didn't believe they were told in no uncertain terms that they were not part of the faith.
Blind Faith? 2009
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The Vatican is in the process of defrocking and formally excommunicating Bourgeois for supporting and attending women's ordinations.
Michele Somerville: Roy Bourgeois Detained At The Vatican For The Crime Of Primacy Of Conscience Michele Somerville 2011
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Its influence was such that Osama Bin Laden's 1998 fatwa which urged "every Muslim who can" to "kill the Americans and their allies -- civilians and military," was justified with reference to Ibn Taymiyya's fourteenth century fatwa, via 'Abd al-Salam Faraj's book, The Neglected Duty, which urged excommunicating and killing of Muslims and non-Muslims.
Azeem Ibrahim: Reassessing Osama Bin Laden's Legacy Azeem Ibrahim 2011
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If these same anti-gay or anti-abortion advocates actually took their Bibles literally they would be weighing people at their church door to check for gluttony and excommunicating half the parish for being overweight.
Frank Schaeffer: Eradicate Fundamentalism In All Its Forms 2010
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April 28, 2008