excommunicate vs shut out

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. 

shut out

verb
  • To prevent from entering; to block or exclude. 

  • To prevent from scoring; to perform a shutout. 

  • To hide from sight. 

  • To refuse to be open and vulnerable toward. 

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