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
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
It is careful never to anathematize its opponents, by a misapplication of Scripture-texts or events, knowing 'that the sword of the Spirit,' must not be wielded by personal, or party animosity.
From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West
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
Two decades later, he found himself at odds with the student movement, anathematized by radicals as a reactionary--the eponymous émigré intellectual of Mr. Sammler's Planet.
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
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
As she is inwardly anathematizing Arthur, he emerges from the throng, and, the dance being at an end, reminds Miss Delmaine that the next is his.
From The Haunted Chamber A Novel by Duchess
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