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What (who) is Anathema - definition
TERM
Anathema sit; Anathematized; Anathemisation; Anatema; Ανάθεμα; Anathematization; Anathema maranatha; Anethema; Anathematisation
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![A mention of anathema in the ''Southwick Codex'', a medieval text in [[Old English]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Soliloquies OE - Anathema (British Library Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, folio 5r).jpg?width=200 "A mention of anathema in the ''Southwick Codex'', a medieval text in [[Old English]]")
![Anathema (in the sense of a curse) attributed to [[Pope Gregory XI]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Villa di agnano, lapide gregorio XI.JPG?width=200 "Anathema (in the sense of a curse) attributed to [[Pope Gregory XI]]")
Anathema
·noun An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
II. Anathema ·noun Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
III. Anathema ·noun A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
anathema
If something is anathema to you, you strongly dislike it.
Violence was anathema to them.
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anathema
n.
Curse, malediction, denunciation, imprecation, fulmination, execration, malison, proscription, ban, excommunication.
Wikipedia
Anathema
Anathema, in common usage, is something or someone detested or shunned. In its other main usage, it is a formal excommunication. The latter meaning, its ecclesiastical sense, is based on New Testament usage. In the Old Testament, anathema was a creature or object set apart for sacrificial offering and thus removed from ordinary use and destined instead for destruction.
Examples of use of Anathema
1. This is anathema to Mr Mehdorn and his executive team.
2. Such virtues are anathema to blinkered educationists and Puritans.
3. Its Western orientation is anathema to the Muslim militants.
4. "Hope" and "the future" have become almost terms of anathema.
5. Thus Zelekha‘s name became anathema over Friday night dinners up and down the land.