The movie is about a priest who tries to exorcise demons from a young girl. please exorcise that offensive word from your vocabulary
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French exorciscer, from Late Latin exorcizare, from Greek exorkizein, from ex- + horkizein to bind by oath, adjure, from horkos oath