🚫 Excluded from church 🚫 A banned member

excommunicant

1 9.9

Not allowed to take part in a church or its services

adjective
/ˌɛkskəˈmjunɪkənt/

Formal

: excomulgado

The excommunicant nun struggled to find acceptance outside her former community.

Examples

As an excommunicant member, he was no longer allowed to attend church services.
The council debated whether to readmit the excommunicant after many years.
The excommunicant was no longer welcome in the church.
He felt like an excommunicant after the church's decision.
The excommunicant was no longer welcome at any church services after the ruling.
Being labeled an excommunicant, he found solace in creating a community of like-minded individuals.
Many believed the excommunicant brought shame upon the congregation with his unrepentant behavior.

Synonyms

anathematic

vsexcommunicant

Formal

9.9

A person, book or practice that a religious authority bans

is specifically excluded from community participation by official sanction

Antonyms

member

∞ 1.4

A person, animal, or thing that belongs to a group

participant

295 2.4

A person who joins an activity or event

How Accepted

member

∞ 1.4

outsider

283 4.1

religious outcast

8.4

excommunicant

Formal

1 9.9

Surface Forms

excommunicant positive

Morphology

excommunicant = excommunicate (opaque) = ex + communic + ant

Although the link to 'excommunicate' is recognizable, '-ant' does not productively signal the passive sense 'having been excommunicated' for most learners.

Etymology

Excommunicant comes from the parts ex- 'out of' and communis 'common', the same root you see in community. So an excommunicant is someone officially put 'out of the community' and not allowed to take part in church life.