anathemas
- plural of anathema.
Example Sentences
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As he pronounced anathemas on you and your kind, the smile peeked out beneath the sneer.
From Slate • Dec. 16, 2011
Theologians from both traditions eventually concluded that the 16th century anathemas were more a function of crossed wires than a denial that salvation is a no-strings-attached gift from God.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next year the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy withdrew the mutual anathemas that their predecessors had hurled at each other a full millennium before.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Welles-Houseman partnership ended badly, with Welles hurling blazing Sterno heaters at Producer Houseman and howling anathemas at him in that voice of Zeus.
From Time Magazine Archive
The abolition churches of the North received the anathemas of the churches of the South and vice versa.
From The History of the Negro Church by Woodson, Carter Godwin
