disfellowship

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disfellowship

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From dis- + fellowship.

verb disfellowships · disfellowshipping · disfellowshiping · disfellowshipped · disfellowshiped

  1. transitive To subject to disfellowshipment. Disfellowshipped persons, shunned by the organisation for their unrepented sins, slipped in at the last and sat by the door, ready to disappear at the end of the closing prayer.

    Similar: excommunicate

noun

  1. uncountable Lack of, or exclusion from, fellowship.

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@misc{disfellowship_2026,
  title = {disfellowship},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/disfellowship},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}