I seem to recall that there is an old papal rubric for the anathematization of heretics. From Wordnik.com. [Obama: "Saddened And Sobered" By Blago, Says He Was Unaware] Reference
But the basic ideological weapon of fundamentalism rarely departs much from the tried and true techniques of anathematization. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Fundamentalism] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get Ahead: From an Address to the Yale Graduating Class] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Fundamentalism] Reference
The basis of that disdain is Rousseau's anathematization of the bourgeois, an idea that seems not to have crossed the Atlantic and cleared customs by the time the Constitution was written. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots of Liberal Condescension] Reference
Unfortunately, at least for the ideals of intellectual discourse, anathematization rarely follows the dictates of logic or evidence, and nearly always scores distressingly high in heat/light ratio. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinian Fundamentalism] Reference
Michelangelo very naturally seconded the anathematization of the. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference
Venerable parent promptly resorts to anathematization, and turns him out. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mutual Friend] Reference
The only belief that it retained from its former creed, was its anathematization of Capital -- responsible for the war. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.] Reference
As an executive he evoked intense admiration and virulent dislike; the Board of Trustees and the alumni body were alike divided between enthusiastic support and bitter anathematization of the measures he proposed. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.] Reference
An interesting parallel is made between the anathematization of those who turn to other gods in the LXX of Deuteronomy, and Paul’s use of similar language in reference to the Galatians’ turning to a different gospel. From Wordnik.com. [Review of Deuteronomy in the New Testament, edited by Steve Moyise and Maarten J. J. Menken] Reference
Combined with the clatter of the wooden casement (peculiar to the houses in Valencia) which she opened to discharge her volley of anathematization, and shut again as the lightning glanced through the aperture, were unable to repel his importunate request for admittance, in a night whose terrors ought to soften all the miserable petty local passions into one awful feeling of fear for the Power who caused it, and compassion for those who were exposed to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English] Reference
(3) dogmatically, by a solemn affirmation of some truth or the anathematization of a falsehood. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
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