Words Like ANATHEMA
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to ANATHEMA.
    
    
    
        
            3 Alternative Words Similar to anathema
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        10 definitions of anathema
           
        
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        A person or thing held to be accursed or devoted to damnation or destruction.
    
    
    
 
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        A curse or denunciation pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, involving excommunication.
    
    
    
 
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        Hence Any imprecation of divine punishment; a curse; an execration.
    
    
    
 
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        Anything devoted to religious uses.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        Synonyms and Curse, Execration, etc. See malediction.
    
    
    
 
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        A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; denunciation of anything as accursed.
    
    
    
 
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        An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
    
    
    
 
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        Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.
    
    
    
 
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        a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication