anathema

Examples

• All

• " Worldly pursuits and the spiritual clientelism of traditional Italian Catholicism were anathema in the newfound faith.

  Academic text (2000)

• Many practices considered acceptable in other cultures are anathema to the strict beliefs of this religious group.

• The notion that any one race is less able to learn than another is anathema to our national conscience.

  Academic text (2003)

• For example, divorce was considered anathema to a successful political career, and the first divorced American president was not elected until 1980.

  Academic text (2003)

• Such a separation is not only unacceptable to them but is regarded as a complete anathema to Islamic thought.

  Academic text (2006)

• For most biologists who've worked with island foxes, that idea is anathema.

  Academic text (2010)

• Gramsci notes that religion often proves to be anathema to the state as it tends to unite populations across class boundaries.

  Academic text (1998)

• A century later, the Decree of Gelasius ruled Jubilees anathema to the Christian community.

  Academic text (2018)

• Genuine land reform in the Philippines remains anathema to the entrenched ruling elites.

  Academic text (1993)

• The church declared her teachings anathema, effectively banning her from their community.

Synonyms

A

anathematization

vsanathema

• Formal

9.9

A formal act by religious leaders that says a person or idea is cursed and cut off from the religion

is the formal curse usually accompanied by expulsion from the church

E

execration

vsanathema

• Formal

9.9

A person or thing that many people strongly hate

is a formal religious condemnation that carries church expulsion

Antonyms

B

blessing

269 1.4

A good thing or situation that brings happiness

Surface Forms

Etymology