Words Like ANATHEMA

We have put together a list of words that are similar to ANATHEMA.

3 Alternative Words Similar to anathema

1 Condemnation Noun      Synonym Words Like Condemnation
2 Curse Noun      Synonym Words Like Curse
3 Execration Noun      Synonym Words Like Execration

10 definitions of anathema

1 A person or thing held to be accursed or devoted to damnation or destruction.
2 A curse or denunciation pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, involving excommunication.
3 Hence Any imprecation of divine punishment; a curse; an execration.
4 Anything devoted to religious uses.
5 A phrase, properly two separate words (see etymology), occurring in the following passage, where it is popularly regarded (and hence sometimes elsewhere used) as an intenser form of anathema.
6 Synonyms and Curse, Execration, etc. See malediction.
7 A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; denunciation of anything as accursed.
8 An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
9 Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
10 a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
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