Anathema definition

From from from from + . The Ancient Greek term was influenced by Hebrew , leading to the sense of "accursed," especially in Ecclesiastical writers.

A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; denunciation of anything as accursed.
An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.
- 2002, Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 30:
  
  That was a curse form which no flight was possible: the anathema of a man who had once known holiness.
Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.