adjective
- of, relating to, or involving excommunication; tending to excommunicate or exclude from a religious community
Usage: formal; chiefly religious context
Examples
- The bishop issued an excommunicative decree against the heretical sect.
- The church's excommunicative policies were controversial among its members.
- Such excommunicative measures were rare in modern religious practice.
- The excommunicative action was taken after years of doctrinal disputes.
- Religious leaders debated whether excommunicative punishment was justified.