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In some senses, anathema is marked as literary, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
monopolizable
VERB + ANATHEMA
contains
ANATHEMA + NOUN
capital, jews
noun
A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
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.”
An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
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.
Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.
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.
Even three years ago, the thought of spending two hours, let alone a whole day, without my mobile would have been anathema.
WiktionaryThe 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.”
WiktionaryTo 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
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Tatoeba · #1368315Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.
Tatoeba · #2347184That cult makes people believe things that are anathema to them.
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In some senses, anathema is marked as literary, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.