anathematize
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It is to Mr. Hale’s great credit that he refuses to anathematize the prodigal children in his book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Should we anathematize communication with half the population?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2020
This became another reason to anathematize Golden Books, which were for decades shunned by library buyers.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2017
When the secret places of the heart were so full of wickedness, why anathematize above the rest those plague-spots which revealed themselves to mortals?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
At last Jesus came, not to anathematize or exclude him, not to break the bruised reed or quench the smoking flax, but to restore him, and to lift on him the light of His countenance.
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
Bayless anathematized James as a diva who was tough when trouncing inferior competition but “soft” when the lights were brightest.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
BuzzFeed was so anathematized that by presser’s end, fellow journalists were picking up their lunch trays and moving to the other side of the cafeteria.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2017
Artur Rodzinski, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, anathematized jazz.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ephesus anathematized the Nestorians, because they refused to acknowledge Mary as Theotokos, the Mother of God.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Is it true that Alexander has anathematized the city?"
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Conrad von Bolanden
In some ways, the grotesqueries of his persona, rather than anathematizing him to voters, only enhanced his appeal among those wishing for something different.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2017
In Constantinople the Most Holy Patriarch Basil of the Greek Orthodox Church was incensed, last week, to the point of anathematizing the new Albanian Synod.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would it be out of order to suggest a cursory glance at past history, sacred and secular, before completely anathematizing Heflin's stand?
From Time Magazine Archive
Long after we left the beach we heard those old cracked, crabbed voices anathematizing the younger members of that community.
From Adventures in New Guinea by James Chalmers
He began to make a set speech, anathematizing runners.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
Vocabulary lists containing anathematize
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