Anathema

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  • noun. A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.
  • noun. A vehement denunciation; a curse.
  • noun. One that is cursed or damned.
  • noun. One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A person or thing held to be accursed or devoted to damnation or destruction.
  • noun. A curse or denunciation pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, involving excommunication.
  • noun. Hence Any imprecation of divine punishment; a curse; an execration.
  • noun. Anything devoted to religious uses.
  • noun. A phrase, properly two separate words (see etymology), occurring in the following passage, where it is popularly regarded (and hence sometimes elsewhere used) as an intenser form of anathema.
  • noun. Synonyms and Curse, Execration, etc. See malediction.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
  • noun. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
  • noun. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
  • noun. an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, “Our Lord cometh.”
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; denunciation of anything as accursed.
  • noun. An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
  • noun. Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
  • noun. a detested person
    • Word Usage
    "Of course (he says self-servingly) the No Spin Zone rejects predictability entirely and lives to ask questions that require actual thought, a word anathema to most politicians in this age of spin."
    cross-reference
    abjuratory anathema  bête noire  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    condemnation  curse  disagreeable person  execration  unpleasant person  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    excommunication  imprecation  interdict  malediction  proscription  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abhorrence  abomination  antipathy  arraignment  aversion  
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