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Familiar Quotations

Excommunication

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.–Saint Thomas Aquinas

Excommunication – "Exclusion"

The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.–Henry Jacobsen

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.–A. W. Tozer

Use in Literature

Excommunication

But another ancestor, a gay and gallant baron, took a fancy to the site for his castle, and, in spite of prayers, anathemas, and excommunication, he turned the poor fellows out, pulled down the abbey, and built this fine old place.–Louisa May Alcott in The Abbot's Ghost, Or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (A Christmas Story).

There was condemnation of the soap; there was perdition for the lighting apparatus; there were maledictions upon the location of the port, and the bedding was excommunicate.–John Kendrick Bangs in Ghosts I have Met and Some Others.

It seems that the Rector was decidedly in the wrong, the dancers of the opera never having been comprised in the papal excommunication which involved players.–Francis W. Blagdon in Paris As It Was and As It Is (A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative of the Effects of the Revolution), vols 1,2.

From the moment of ‘excommunication’ the Hindu must totally disappear.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

His own household, his father, wife, children, are all bound to turn their faces from him, under the penalty of being excommunicated in their turn.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

Malcolm supposes accordingly that the Bhils are sectarians, who separated from the Brahmanical creed, and were excommunicated.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

Suppose I suffer my caste to excommunicate me, both my girls will be dishonored and miserable for the rest of their lives.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

The excommunicated member is worse off than a leper, the solidarity of the castes in this respect being something phenomenal.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Excommunication 1
• Excommunication – "Exclusion" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Excommunication 2
• Excommunication – "Church" 9
• Excommunication – "Exclusion" 11
• Excommunication – "God" 13
• Excommunication – "King" 13
• Excommunication – "Man" 14
• Excommunication – "Persons" 15
• Excommunication – "Pope" 16
• Excommunication – "Power" 18
• Excommunication – "Sentence" 18
• Nonfiction Usage 20
• Journalism Usage 20
• Governmental Usage 21
• Bibliographic Usage 21
• Encyclopedic Usage 34
• Lexicographic Usage 55
• Index 67