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

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

Pray, Mr. Loveyet, do not anathematize me so;—if you do not civilize your phraseology a little, I must have recourse to a little castigation, for, necessitas non habet legem, you know, Mr. Loveyet.

From The Politician Out-Witted by Montrose Jonas Moses

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

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

So much was admitted that it had been read there, and that Ibas, after anathematizing Nestorius, had been received by the Council.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

He joined me in anathematizing the careless mate of the Empress and the stupid editor of the Liverpool paper.

From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles