Excision
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The deletion of some text during editing. The removal of a tumor, etc., by cutting. The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material. The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.
Excommunication
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.