anathematize

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

He would rebel, she knew, and anathematize fate vehemently.

From Vagabondia 1884 by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This latter published the Henoticon, but expressly refused to anathematize the council of Chalcedon; on which account the rigid Eutychians separated themselves from his communion, and were called Acephali, or, without a head.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

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

Ephesus anathematized the Nestorians, because they refused to acknowledge Mary as Theotokos, the Mother of God.

From Time Magazine Archive

She told of a handsome Maltese-Angora cat which was anathematized by Calvin Coolidge who, disliking fancy breeds, said: "Anyone can see that his name is Mud."

From Time Magazine Archive

Was it not the one name, out of all the great German names associated with the war, which was anathematized more surely even than that of the Kaiser himself?

From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum

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

Leo issued a second Bull, excommunicating Luther absolutely, anathematizing him and all his friends and abettors.

From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Joseph A. Seiss

Clenching his hands he half rose from the sofa, only to again fall back helplessly upon it, with a curse, anathematizing his unsteady legs while he pressed his palms against his whirling head.

From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman