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n. - The formal act of pronouncing (someone or something) accursed.

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  • I seem to recall that there is an old papal rubric for the anathematization of heretics.
  • But the basic ideological weapon of fundamentalism rarely departs much from the tried and true techniques of anathematization.
  • The spirit of Russell Long and John B. Connally is strong in our land as also the anathematization of the public according to Commodore Vanderbilt.
  • We will not win this most important of all battles if we descend to the same tactics of backbiting and anathematization that characterize our true opponents.
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