noun · rare

anathema

a·na·the·ma

anathema · anathemas · anathemata

прокляття, анафема, анатема

проклятие, анафема

Fluch, Graus, Gräuel, Anathema

A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often…A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.

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/əˈnæθəmə/

» Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

Meaning

4 senses

(historical)A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed.
Bannfluch, Bannstrahl, Kirchenbann
ана́фемаanáfema
ана́фемаanáfema, ана́темаanátema
a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication
(broadly)Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody.
Gräuel, Graus
(literary)An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
Verwünschung, Fluch
прокля́тиеprokljátije
прокля́ттяprokljáttja
Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.

Examples

5 sentences

Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.
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The sight of him was anathema to her.
deSein Anblick war ihr verhasst.
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That cult makes people believe things that are anathema to them.
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Pigs are anathema to Jews and Muslims.
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No sentence on Tatoeba contains the word "anathema".
ruНа Татоэбе нет предложения со словом "анафема".
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 2

ban or curse:

imprecation:

Русский

By meaning 2

ban or curse:

imprecation:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

ban or curse:

something vehemently disliked:

imprecation:

Origin

Borrowed from Late Latin anathema (“curse, person cursed, offering”), itself a borrowing f

Borrowed from Late Latin anathema (“curse, person cursed, offering”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀνάθεμα (anáthema, “something dedicated, especially dedicated to eternal damnation”), from ἀνατίθημι (anatíthēmi, “to set upon, offer as a votive gift”), from ἀνά (aná, “upon”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to put, place”). The Ancient Greek term was influenced by Hebrew חרם (herem), leading to the sense of "accursed," especially in Ecclesiastical writers.

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