anathema🔊

(ecclesiastical, historical) A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, often accompanied by excommunication; something denounced as accursed. +

(by extension) Something which is vehemently disliked by somebody. +

(literary) An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

(ecclesiastical) Any person or thing cursed by ecclesiastical authority to unending punishment.