civil death

1. 1.

   the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment

   Broaderlegal status

   law

2. 2.

   cancellation of civil rights

   Synonymsattainder

   Broadercancellation

Questions about civil death

What does civil death mean?

civil death means "the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for civil death?

Close synonyms include attainder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is civil death a common word?

civil death is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.