(n.) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.
(n.) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
(n.) Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(2) Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will not face battery charges Read more In a jeremiad against political correctness redolent of his future employer, Miller writes that “politically correct dictates are anathema to American values”.
(3) The medical profession has gone downhill since the days when abortionists were anathema.
(4) This camp believes that a deal, should it be reached, will enshrine Iran’s right to a nuclear programme in international law – an idea it finds an anathema,” said analyst Jeffrey Goldberg .
(5) A spectacular fall from grace on the pitch – from first to seventh, playing dour football that is anathema to fans who feasted on success throughout the Ferguson era – will also lead to renewed scrutiny of the club's controversial US owners, the Glazer family , away from it.
(6) This is anathema to most in the socialist party, whose leaders would prefer a coalition with PP than with Podemos.
(7) But we also face the risk that the forces of opposition are correct: that these policies are electoral anathema, or unworkable, or both.
(8) The idea that a judge who may be no expert in the field can dish out so-called super-injunctions – preventing us from even knowing that he or she has restrained publication – is insulting to the public and anathema to democracy.
(9) It was anathema to conservatives, and Rubio had backed away from it almost as soon as it passed the Senate (it reached a dead end in the House).
(10) These were the restrictive customs of Pashtun village life, but anathema to educated women, especially in Kabul.
(11) He can't talk about his life as a Mormon, which, rightly or wrongly, seems weird to most Americans and he can't talk about Massachusetts because the two policies he is known for – legislation against assault weapons and universal health insurance – are anathema to the Republican party.
(12) While such an idea appears logical and attractive to many scientists and civil society groups, among the governments of many leading countries it is anathema, as it implies much stronger limits on emissions than any that have yet been agreed.
(13) Like his pal Milton Friedman, government was anathema.
(14) Under the terms of the deal currently being thrashed out in a bid to meet a 10 October takeover panel deadline, those stakes will be reduced to around 9% each – a level that Darling views as anathema.
(15) The idea that sectors of our community should have to book in advance when others don’t is anathema to me.
(16) The expression of freedom was often an anathema to plantation owners, the financial markets and politicians.
(17) Their move towards reliability even extends to pushing for regulation of the currency, something which seems anathema to longer-standing users .
(18) The report he referred to was an internal document obtained by the Guardian last week , in the runup to the referendum, which supported Greek calls for writing down the country’s unmanageable debt level, a proposal that is anathema to Berlin.
(19) It is usually considered anathema to the culture of Anonymous; but they appear to have made an exception to this rule when it comes to lifting the hoods of Klan members.
(20) Such partisan journalism is anathema to the very DNA of Sabah.
Imprecation
Definition:
(n.) The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon any one; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on any one; a curse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the governments are relatively powerless to affect US policy toward them, they turn their energies to repressing and keeping down their own populations, with results in resentment, anger and helpless imprecations that do nothing to open up societies where secular ideas about human history and development have been overtaken by failure and frustration, as well as by an Islamism built out of rote learning and the obliteration of what are perceived to be other, competitive forms of secular knowledge.
(2) Mr Clegg could declare without irony that the Lib Dems belong in power, and at last lay to rest the lingering echo of David Steel's hubristic imprecation to go home and prepare for power.
(3) It begins in bravura style with sirens and a clap of thunder, and then – judging by the excerpts we hear – is thrillingly noisy and aggressive, indeed a return to the familiar Wu landscape of sinister soul samples, whiplash drums, and dire threats and imprecations, updated with the occasional reference to Harry Potter.
(4) As in the case of China, one does not have to regard Putin’s moves and motives favorably to understand the logic behind them, nor to grasp the importance of understanding that logic instead of issuing imprecations against it.
(5) EU gives Poland two months to scrap changes to its highest court Read more So far, Kaczyński has concluded he can ignore imprecations from Brussels or half-hearted protests from members with their minds on other matters.
(6) Of course they and my brother Don, despite my stuttered imprecations, drove through the night from Edinburgh.