anathematization

Definitions

The act of anathematizing; vigorous denunciation.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“He must have⟳ been a boy of spirit and resource, to get⟳ here on a stopped allowance of five sous a week; but he did it somehow, and he burst⟳ in on his father, and pleaded his sister's cause. Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out.”

“Michelangelo very naturally seconded the anathematization of the Bolognese by Julius, not so much for the insult to the Pope as for the wretched lack of taste⟳ they had shown in destroying a work⟳ of art.”

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