Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Meriting, liable to, or punishable by excommunication.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; that may incur or give occasion for excommunication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Liable or deserving to be
excommunicated .
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Examples
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My priest tells me that liking the original Battlestar Galactica is an excommunicable offense, but I don't care!
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My priest tells me that liking the original Battlestar Galactica is an excommunicable offense, but I don't care!
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KAYE: The Family International refused an interview with CNN, but in a statement acknowledges Berg taught sexual liberty without instituting safeguards for the protection of minors, but it says, that was corrected in 1986, and any infractions are an excommunicable offense.
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KAYE: The Family International refused an interview with CNN, but in a statement acknowledges Berg taught sexual liberty without instituting safeguards for the protection of minors, but it says, that was corrected in 1986, and any infractions are an excommunicable offense.
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In fact, the practice of polygamy is an excommunicable offense, and has been for many decades.
Yet another memoir excerptI call this one "Prophet Sharing" shunn 2001
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In fact, the practice of polygamy is an excommunicable offense, and has been for many decades.
Yet another memoir excerptI call this one "Prophet Sharing" shunn 2001
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For do we not see daily, that as soon as men come to a clearer understanding of the mind of God, to say the best of what they hold, that presently all men are excommunicable, if not damnable, that do not agree with them.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658
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"The fact is, this document and its predecessors make it an excommunicable offense to reveal any knowledge of allegations that a priest has sexually abused," he said in an e-mail.
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"The fact is, this document and its predecessors make it an excommunicable offense to reveal any knowledge of allegations that a priest has sexually abused," he said in an e-mail.
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"The fact is, this document and its predecessors make it an excommunicable offense to reveal any knowledge of allegations that a priest has sexually abused," he said in an e-mail.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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