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anathema

Something that is shunned or cursed. The word is used in the Christian church in excommunication.



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To a people of this nature the Homeric epos would be inacceptable, and the post-Homeric epic, with its conventional atmosphere, its trite and hackneyed diction, and its insincere sentiment, would be anathema.
Paul's perfection, that he would wish to be anathema from Christ, for the salvation of his brethren, it shows much of a divine nature, and a kind of conformity with Christ himself
To do anything THEY have never done is anathema maranatha.
 
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