Monday 29 February 2016

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Anathema

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a-nath-e-ma

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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