excommunicate

Example Sentences

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He did this by threatening to excommunicate from the Church those bishops who refused to comply with his wishes.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025

“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 the same year, Napoleon annexed the Papal States in central Italy, prompting Pope Pius VII to excommunicate him.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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