(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.
Odium
Definition:
(n.) Hatred; dislike; as, his conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
(n.) The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It must therefore be assumed that onesided private financial support carries the odium of "private relief" for the recipients, in which case it would run contrary to the intentions of social legislation.
(2) The reality is that all organisations hate having their inner workings exposed, the more so if it incurs collective odium and risks jobs.
(3) They are therefore suffering both the odium of "higher fees" and the cost of what will be a higher level of subsidy.
(4) Moreover, it would be useful to free the diet from the odium of an annoying and unimportant supplementation to medicamentous diabetes therapy.
(5) Claims on social assistance, however, are not being deduced from preperformances (in a judical sense in regard of pensions) but are being derived from a diffuse claim on a social state incured with the odium of statutory relief for the necessitous.
(6) It’s hard to feel excited or even relieved, though, when her road to victory is so slick with the odium of Donald Trump .
(7) It simply does not stack up,” he said, pointing out the government had accepted the “public odium” of promising to abolish the schoolkids bonus before the election “and nevertheless they voted for us.” “The people of Australia will be watching very closely what we as senators do,” he warned.
(8) I had incurred the maximum of political odium for the minimum of political benefit."
(9) 'Community care' will come to deserve the odium now attached to the worst practices of former times if the tradition of asylum practised in the best of the large hospitals is not (with appropriate modification) acknowledged, properly placed in the psychiatric curriculum, and given high priority in service planning.