anathema
IPA: ʌnˈæθʌmʌ
noun
- (ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
- (by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
- (literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
- (ecclesiastical) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.
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Examples of "anathema" in Sentences
- Any crime is anathema for the libertarian.
- The behaviour is anathema to the purposes of the project.
- Thar behaviour is anathema to the purposes of the project.
- The anathema was addressed to all monasteries of Begemder.
- Second, unbelief in the Lord Jesus Christ is not Anathema.
- It is anathema to the ethics of respect between Wiki editors.
- The article on shunning should link to the article on anathema.
- Such a view was popular in the thirties and anathema in the fifties.
- It brought upon him the anathema of the patriarch of Constantinople.
- That's anathema to Jewish traditions of learning and developing the mind.
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