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# anathema

«anathema» in Mova's school dictionary: **something or someone that people strongly hate and want…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural in common use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Anathema is something or someone that people strongly hate and want to avoid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anathema/#m1)

2) (old use) A curse put on a person by a church or a leader. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anathema/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a fierce dispute or a curse that cannot be lifted; a word for what is hated

### examples

- Lies were anathema to the honest king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anathema/#x1)
- In the old tale, the dispute became an anathema. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anathema/#x2)
- Cruelty is anathema to kind people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anathema/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anathema» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anathema/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.