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a·nath·e·ma (ə-năth́ə-mə)

[Late Latin anathema, doomed offering, accursed thing, from Greek, from anatithenai, anathe-, to dedicate, ana-, ana-, + tithenai, to put.]

noun: pl., -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)