Definition of Anathema

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Anathema

A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.

An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.

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Anathema Quotations

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
Matt Damon

The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.
Charles Hodge

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
William Weld

The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
Dennis Prager

Anathema Translations

anathema in French is interdit
anathema in Italian is scomunica
anathema in Spanish is anatema
anathema in Swedish is anatema, bannlysning

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