disfellowship

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ fellowship

Verb

disfellowship (third-person singular simple present disfellowships, present participle disfellowshipping or disfellowshiping, simple past and past participle disfellowshipped or disfellowshiped)

1. (transitive) To subject to disfellowshipment.
   • 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 62:

     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.

Synonyms

• excommunicate

Noun

disfellowship (uncountable)

1. Lack of, or exclusion from, fellowship.

See also

• unfellowship