Sunday, 12 May 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Anathema

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noun :: A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.



noun :: An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.



noun :: Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.



"...the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue" --Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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