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
He may anathematize me for betraying his secret; but I think it is time to do him justice, even against his will.
From The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
They can anathematize better men than themselves; and denounce slavery as a curse, an evil, a hardship!
From A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward
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
Aksel Sandemose is a 39-year-old Danish novelist who has been acclaimed and anathematized in much the same terms as James Joyce, Celine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the very first session Nestorius was anathematized, deposed, excommunicated.
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
They met in synod, 214 bishops or more, and passed nine canons, anathematizing the Pelagian views.
From The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894 by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne
He began to make a set speech, anathematizing runners.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
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