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

Is the word to carry with it license to define in detail an invisible world, and to anathematize and excommunicate those whose trust is different?

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Duelling, branded by the law, is also now so branded in public opinion that it would be waste of words to anathematize it.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various

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

Moreover, it is as plain, or even plainer, that what the Christians of the first ages anathematized, included deductions from the Articles of Faith, that is, false developments, as well as contradictions of those Articles.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman

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

It was Morris or nothing with me, And now I began anathematizing to myself those crusty, secret, cautious natures that are always satisfied when they cry "Stop!" without taking the trouble to say wherefore.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

On every side the Old Believer raised about him a wall of scruples and prejudices, entrenching himself behind his stagnation and ignorance, and anathematizing all civilization in a breath.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various