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Anathema

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Noun

1. anathema, bete noire

a detested person

Example Sentences:
'he is an anathema to me'

2. anathema

a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Anathema

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noun plural -mas
1. 
a detested person or thing
he is anathema to me
2. 
a formal ecclesiastical curse of excommunication or a formal denunciation of a doctrine
3. 
the person or thing so cursed
4. 
a strong curse; imprecation

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Anathema

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nounWord forms: plural aˈnathemas
1. 
a thing or person accursed or damned
2. 
a thing or person greatly detested
3. 
a. 
a solemn ecclesiastical condemnation of a teaching judged to be gravely opposed to accepted church doctrine, or of the originators or supporters of such a teaching
b. 
the excommunication often accompanying or following this condemnation
adjective
4. 
greatly detested
5. 
viewed as accursed or damned
6. 
subjected to an ecclesiastical anathema

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Anathema

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n. pl. a·nath·e·mas
1. A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.
2. A vehement denunciation; a curse: "the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
3. One that is cursed or damned.
4. One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned: "Essentialism—a belief in natural, immutable sex differences—is anathema to postmodernists, for whom sexuality itself, along with gender, is a 'social construct'" (Wendy Kaminer).

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