Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Excommunication has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
the state of being excommunicated
the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society
The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.