banish vs excommunicate

banish

verb
  • To send someone away and forbid that person from returning. 

  • To expel, especially from the mind. 

excommunicate

verb
  • To exclude from any other group; to banish. 

  • To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community. 

adj
  • Excommunicated. 

noun
  • An excommunicated person. 

How often have the words banish and excommunicate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )