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anathema
[ uh-nath-uh-muh ]
noun
- a person or thing detested or loathed:
That subject is anathema to him.
- a person or thing accursed or consigned to damnation or destruction.
- a formal ecclesiastical curse involving excommunication.
- any imprecation of divine punishment.
- a curse; execration.
anathema
/ əˈnæθəmə /
noun
- a detested person or thing
he is anathema to me
- a formal ecclesiastical curse of excommunication or a formal denunciation of a doctrine
- the person or thing so cursed
- a strong curse; imprecation
Word History and Origins
Origin of anathema1
Word History and Origins
Origin of anathema1
Example Sentences
After a few experiments I learned that I could skip those movies, and Tyler Perry was anathema in my book.
American politics with its razzmatazz and movie stars were an anathema.
In his opinion, the “path to citizenship” for immigrants, which is anathema to many conservatives, is absolutely essential.
The occasional yellow or red was acceptable, but the suggestion of a blue dress was met with distress, and brown was anathema.
Government regulations were not anathema to the market but requisite.
He breathed fierce and honest anathema on the heads of the bowelless fiends who had abandoned the babe to its doom.
Every word she breathed, every anathema she denounced, seemed urged by the quick revenge of Duke Wharton!
Shrieking inarticulate anathema, he rushed downstairs, the man in the green baize apron following at his heels.
He waited until he was old and cold to hurl anathema against the human passions.
The anathema of the good bishop is pitched in many keys and sounds, like the collected utterances of many throats.
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