to disfellowship

Examples

• All

• This position was then enforced: members who participated in the war were disfellowshipped.

  Academic text (1998)

• In 1981, the church's governing authority changed the rules to treat disassociated members like disfellowshipped members.

  Academic text (1991)

• How could they disfellowship her?

  Apostasy (2017)

• And that is when someone close to our hearts... is disfellowshipped.

  Apostasy (2017)

• Well, I've got my sister as well, but she was disfellowshipped.

  Apostasy (2017)

• But we must put Jehovah first, even before our family members if they are disfellowshipped.

  Apostasy (2017)

• And if you leave and they announce that you have been disfellowshipped, your family may shun you.

  Shawn Ryan Show

• If you are disfellowshipped or disassociated, I will have to cease my comments to you.

  Blog text (6)

• The church decided to disfellowship anyone who disagreed with its core beliefs.

• After the scandal, the committee voted to disfellowship the members involved.

Synonyms

D

to disown

vsto disfellowship

37 5.8

Refuse to accept someone or something and stop having any connection with them

is formal group membership removal rather than personal rejection

O

to ostracize

vsto disfellowship

• US

31 7.7

To leave someone out of a group on purpose

is formal exclusion from membership rather than social avoidance

C

to cast out

vsto disfellowship

31 6.2

Force someone to leave a group or place because others reject them

is official membership removal rather than physical expulsion

E

to excommunicate

vsto disfellowship

• Formal

24 9.3

To officially stop someone from being a member of a church as punishment

is formal exclusion that may be administrative rather than punitive

O

to outcast

vsto disfellowship

1 5.7

To force someone out of a group so others avoid them

is formal exclusion from membership rather than social shaming

D

to disaffiliate

vsto disfellowship

• Formal

1 7.5

To stop being a member of a group or organization

is exclusion by a group of a member rather than ending an organizational tie

U

to unchurch

vsto disfellowship

• Jargon

9.9

To officially stop someone being a member of a church group

is broader and applies to formal exclusion from any group, not only churches

Antonyms

I

to include

∞ 1.0

To make a person or thing part of something larger

A

to admit

238 2.8

Allow someone to join a group or organization

How Excluded

to banish

107 6.3

to excommunicate

• Formal

24 9.3

to expel

194 5.0

to disfellowship

• Jargon

1 9.9

to suspend

141 3.9

to reprimand

• Formal

33 6.1

to warn

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology