Definition of "excommunications" [excommunications]

• Plural form of excommunication. (noun)

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• "The Motu Proprio of 2007 and the lifting of the so-called excommunications were the first steps."
• "At last Boniface bowed to submission, surrendered the points at issue, recalled his excommunications, and was suffered to return."
• "Of course, lifting the excommunications was a first step; it does not regularize these bishops or the Society of St. Pius X, but it opens the way for a dialogue."