αφορισμός — meaning in English
aforismos
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English meaning
- excommunication noun The formal act of expelling someone from membership in a church, especially the Catholic church.
Senses
αφορισμός is used for these senses in English:
- aphorism A concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.
- excommunication 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.