anathemas
Objects of loathing
Anathemas is the plural of anathema, something or someone intensely disliked or condemned.
Originally a religious term for formal excommunication or curse, anathema now usually appears in secular contexts: His ideas were anathema to the committee.
The plural emphasizes multiple condemned things: The party's anathemas included higher taxes and foreign intervention.
Formal barring from sacraments
- curseInvoked harm through words
- banOfficial restriction on something
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
- damnationEternal punishment decree
condemnation · papal · decree · denunciation · blasphemy · apostasy · interdict · ecclesiastical
Intensely loathed things
- loathingsIntense feelings of disgust
- detestationsIntense feelings of hatred
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
- hatredIntense hostile aversion
revulsion · disgust · nemeses · banes · bugbears · pet peeves · despised · intolerable
Direct rhetorical opposites
- contradictionsLogically incompatible assertions
- oppositesTerms with contrary meanings
- incompatibleUnable to exist together
- irreconcilableImpossible to resolve together
repudiated · rejected · denounced · disavowed · heretical · heterodox · contrarian · forbidden
excommunication
Formal barring from sacraments
- curseInvoked harm through words
- banOfficial restriction on something
- heresyBelief opposing official doctrine
damnation · condemnation · papal · decree · denunciation · blasphemy · apostasy · interdict · ecclesiastical · pronouncement
abominations
Intensely loathed things
- loathingsIntense feelings of disgust
- detestationsIntense feelings of hatred
- abhorrenceExtreme hatred or disgust
hatred · revulsion · disgust · nemeses · banes · bugbears · pet peeves · despised · intolerable · unacceptable
antitheses
Direct rhetorical opposites
- contradictionsLogically incompatible assertions
- oppositesTerms with contrary meanings
- incompatibleUnable to exist together
irreconcilable · repudiated · rejected · denounced · disavowed · heretical · heterodox · contrarian · forbidden · taboo
- tiradestirades, tirade, rants, rant, harangues
- cursescurse, curses, hex, hexes, jinx
- Church decreesencyclicals, bulls, promulgations, canons, briefs
- canon lawchurch law, canonist, tribunal, canons, church court
- church councilscouncils, synods, church councils, convocation, convocations
- Church FathersAugustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Athanasius, Ignatius of Antioch
anathemasblessings
Favors from the divine
benedictions · absolutions · consecrations · beatitudes · hosannas