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/əˈnæθəmə/ · noun
(ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed..
Even three years ago, the thought of spending two hours, let alone a whole day, without my mobile would have been anathema.
The actor, who prizes mystery, hated being gossip fodder. “That was anathema to him,” said his sister Martha Fiennes, a filmmaker, “and he just hated the curiosity into his life.”
To law enforcement officers injured in the Jan. 6 mayhem, as well as members of Congress and others present in the Capitol that day who feared for their lives, such adulation for convicted rioters is not only misguided but also anathema to a civilized society.
I trembled at his ringing wealth Of manifold anathemas […]
That was a curse from which no flight was possible: the anathema of a man who had once known holiness.
“Assumptions are anathema to communication.” “You're anathema. Fine, all right, I messed up. I guess I'll go break her stupid heart since that's what you all seem to want.”
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Ἆνάθεμα, accurẛed, חרם, which the Septuagint renders Anathema, ẛignifies Perẛons or Things devoted to Deẛtruction and Extermination. The Jewiẛh Nation were now an Anathema, deẛtin'd to Deẛtruction. St. Paul to expreẛs his Affection to them, ẛays, he could wiẛh to ẛave them from it, to become an Anathema and be deẛtroy'd himẛelf.
Use anathema when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anathema means (ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed..
Common synonyms include ban, curse, antipathy, bête noire.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Even three years ago, the thought of spending two hours, let alone a whole day, without my mobile would have been anathema.
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